Education Voucher System

Reporters:CHERRY MAE T.

CAÑETEKRISTEL T. CAÑETE

It is a system through which parents are given tuition certificate, funded by the government or a private organization, which can be used to pay for all or part of the tuition for a child to attend a participating private school.

What is Education Voucher System?

EVS is program provided by Republic Act 8545 or the “Expanded Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education” (E-GASTPE)

It was launched in March 2006.

To decongest the overcrowded public high school by awarding vouchers to students in DepEd-Identified priority areas.

Goals of EVS:

To reduce the class size to manageable level in high school.

To improve access to quality basic education at the secondary level through government financial assistance to poor but deserving elementary graduates.

Provide disadvantage students with opportunity to attend private schools in order for them to receive a better education.

Purposes of Voucher Program:

To create competition for the public school so that they will improve their instructional programs.

How the program funded?Publicly-Funded

Privately-Funded

Applicant meet the admission requirement of the school

Criteria for selection of grantees:

Applicants from families whose incomes are within or below the poverty thresholds.

Parents or guardians received favorable assessment by the School Committee.

Grantees of EVS must come exclusively from public elementary schools.

Amount and Terms

Subsidy for all grantees from 1st to 4th year level shall be at P5,000 per grantee/year

General Guidelines

• The subsidy cover the entire four (4) years of high school in an EVS participating private high school provided the grantee is promoted to the subsequent year level until he graduates.

The subsidy ceases when the grantee drops, fail a year level, or transfer to a non- participating private school, except in cases due to sickness and if he/she able to provide medical certificate.

The subsidy is only partial when a school’s tuition and other fees exceed P5,000.

DepEd Central Accounting Division shall make payments of grants to participating school through school bank accounts with the Land Bank of the Philippines(LBP).

School LBP accounts must be in the official name of the school. No payment shall be made directly to a person, whether he or she is a grantee or a school official.

Only government-recognized private secondary schools may participate in the program provide they passed the CERTIFICATION PROGRAM and have dropout reduction program.

Ground for Suspension or

Termination of School Participation

*Falsification of data or information in any of the program forms and related attachments

*Padding and/or inclusion of “ghost students” in the list of grantees.*Charging grantees in excess of a school’s actual tuition and other fees.

*Undue delay or non-reimbursement of tuition and other fees advance by grantees.

*Double listing of grantees in both ESC and EVS.

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