{"id":33069,"date":"2018-09-10T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=33069"},"modified":"2018-09-10T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:19:43","slug":"34-cities-municipalities-recognized-for-outstanding-education-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/09\/10\/34-cities-municipalities-recognized-for-outstanding-education-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"34 cities, municipalities recognized for outstanding education efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-four cities and municipalities from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao were recognized recently for their outstanding efforts in improving the quality of basic education in their communities. Seventeen of them will be conferred the Seal of Good Education Governance, while the rest will receive the Jesse Robredo Award in Education Governance, named after the late interior secretary and longtime mayor of Naga City.<\/p>\n<p>All the 34 local government units (LGUs) met the Synergeia Foundation\u2019s criteria for good education governance. To qualify, they must have reinvented their local school boards and organized functional school governing councils. The cities and municipalities must have also reduced the number of non-readers and frustrated readers in their locality by at least\u00a020 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, their cohort survival rate (the percentage of first graders who went on to sixth grade) must be higher than the national average of 80% or must have increased by at least two percentage points.\u00a0The LGUs must have devoted an increasing amount of their budget to education.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Synergeia \u2013 a coalition of individuals and organizations working closely with LGUs \u2013 started giving the Seal of Good Education Governance last year to promote transparency, accountability, and excellence in the delivery of basic education by local governments. It received 350 LGU nominations this year, which is higher than last year\u2019s 250 submissions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s results were deliberated upon by Synergeia trustees and representatives from PLDT, Smart Communications, and SGV Foundation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As an incentive to the Seal holders, PLDT and Smart will provide technology packages suited to the LGUs\u2019 respective circumstances and needs. Among the possible incentives are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installation and maintenance of Smart Wifi in the LGU\u2019s nominated university<\/li>\n<li>Provision of InfoCast, a web-based solution that will allow the LGU to broadcast announcements and receive feedback via text message<\/li>\n<li>Smart School-in-a-Bag, which contains a solar panel to serve schools without electricity, mobile devices, curriculum-based educational content, teacher training, monitoring, and evaluation<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All recipients of the Seal of Good Education Governance will get smartphones and a cash prize from PLDT and Smart. On top of these, thousands of individuals from each of the 17 Seal recipients who will sign up for KasamaKA will get a free three-month micro-insurance coverage from FINTQ, the financial technology arm of PLDT-Smart digital unit Voyager Innovations. KasamaKA is a community-based, self-help, income-generating, and inclusive ecosystem-building movement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe at PLDT and Smart hope that these technology tools would help the country\u2019s outstanding LGUs deliver quality education to their constituents. We recognize that tech solutions to challenges in education work only when major stakeholders pursue innovative learning programs,\u201d said PLDT and Smart Public Affairs Head Ramon R. Isberto.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Recipients of the Seal of Good Education Governance plus an Incentive Package from PLDT and Smart:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bacnotan, La Union<\/li>\n<li>Diadi, Nueva Vizcaya<\/li>\n<li>Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya<\/li>\n<li>Solano, Nueva Vizcaya<\/li>\n<li>Villaverde, Nueva Vizcaya<\/li>\n<li>Diffun, Quirino<\/li>\n<li>Navotas City, Metro Manila<\/li>\n<li>Valenzuela City, Metro Manila<\/li>\n<li>Maribojoc, Bohol<\/li>\n<li>Mambusao, Capiz<\/li>\n<li>Concepcion, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Lambunao, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Leon, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Mina, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Cagayan de Oro<\/li>\n<li>Datu Paglas, Maguindanao<\/li>\n<li>Bongao, Tawi Tawi<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Recipients of the Jesse Robredo Award in Education Governance:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Vigan, Ilocos Sur<\/li>\n<li>Agoo, La Union<\/li>\n<li>San Fernando, La Union<\/li>\n<li>San Gabriel, La Union<\/li>\n<li>Santol, La Union<\/li>\n<li>Dao, Capiz<\/li>\n<li>Ivisan, Capiz<\/li>\n<li>Argao, Cebu<\/li>\n<li>Ajuy, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Alimodian, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Cabatuan, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Lemery, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Maasin, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>Miagao, Iloilo<\/li>\n<li>General Santos City<\/li>\n<li>Parang, Maguindanao<\/li>\n<li>Upi, Maguindanao<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-four cities and municipalities from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao were recognized recently for their outstanding efforts in improving the quality of basic education in their communities. Seventeen of them will be conferred the Seal of Good Education Governance, while the rest will receive the Jesse Robredo Award in Education Governance, named after the late interior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[379,6325,343,6324],"class_list":["post-33069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-pldt","tag-seal-of-good-education-governance","tag-smart-communications","tag-synergeia-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}