By Yvonne T. Chua
VERA Files
If things go as planned, the Department of Education will start delivering this month 61.4 million copies of textbooks and teachers’ manuals worth P2.58 billion to public elementary and high schools nationwide.
The shipments consist of some 40 titles, both old and new, all of them expected to be distributed by summer. When school year 2012-13 rolls around, every public school child will have his or her own textbook in all the core subjects except in high school Filipino where no books were bought by the DepEd.
But civil society watchdogs as well as several former and current education officials say about half the books, or just over 30 million copies valued at P1.317 billion, were procured by direct contracting, a mode they said violates Republic Act No. 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act. The law sets competitive or public bidding as the rule for all state procurements and allows direct contracting only in “highly exceptional cases.”
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P1.32B libro, kapag hindi pa tumaas ang kalidad ng edukasyon sa halagang yan ay ipakain ang bulto ng libro kay Education Secretary Armin Luistro!
Maigi pa na nagpatayo ng maraming kubeta sa mga schools, palagay ko mas kailangan yun kesa sa bulto-bultong libro na hindi naman binabasa ang karamihan. Up to date kaya mga librong yan ni Luisito?
“…30 million copies valued at P1.317 billion, were procured by direct contracting, a mode they said violates Republic Act No. 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act.”
Ano kaya ang ‘exceptional” sa mga librong ito at hindi pinadaan sa bidding? Komisyon marahil, 20% commission ba yan, Tongue?
Pff topic:
Pnoy is right to say what he said about our justices and justice system as a whole. I have the same opinion and/or sentiment. it’s long overdue for them to hear from somebody elected by the people. If I can tell pnoy, exactly what he said is what many feels for hi8m to say. In my opinion, the judiaciary as a whole most of the time are the ones breaking and misinterpreting the law, nawala na ang prinsipyo. naging partisan o pera ang batayan at hindi ang tungkol sa batas, Idenedelay at kapag malamig na tsaka binabaligtad, considering all of them are appointed. even the appointment of justice corona is even questionable di pala against the law!!!