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Filipino families grapple with the increasing cost of education. Only 50% of Senior High-ready schools are public. Yet government keeps spending public funds for private gain:<\/p>\n

Php12.2 billion – Senior High School (SHS) Voucher Program budget for 2016;<\/p>\n

Php47.9 billion – Government Assistance for Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) from 2010-2016;<\/p>\n

Php500 million-Php1 billion – Minimum guaranteed payment to Ayala and Pearson’s Affordable Private Education Center (APEC) in the first year of implementing Senior High School;<\/p>\n

Php16.2 billion – Lease payments to construction magnates Henry Sy and Bayani Fernando over 10 years for the PPP for School Infrastructure Project<\/p>", "protected": false }, "excerpt": { "rendered": "

Filipino families grapple with the increasing cost of education. Only 50% of Senior High-ready schools are public. Yet government keeps spending public funds for private gain: Php12.2 billion – Senior High School (SHS) Voucher Program budget for 2016; Php47.9 billion – Government Assistance for Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) from 2010-2016; Php500 million-Php1 […]<\/p>", "protected": false }, "author": 3, "featured_media": 5474, "comment_status": "open", "ping_status": "open", "sticky": false, "template": "", "format": "standard", "meta": { "_acf_changed": false, "_exactmetrics_skip_tracking": false, "_exactmetrics_sitenote_active": false, "_exactmetrics_sitenote_note": "", "_exactmetrics_sitenote_category": 0, "footnotes": "" }, "categories": [ 39, 38 ], "tags": [ 188, 323, 318, 322, 155, 324, 180, 325, 123, 320, 300, 326, 129, 319, 321 ], "class_list": [ "post-5471", "post", "type-post", "status-publish", "format-standard", "has-post-thumbnail", "hentry", "category-infographics", "category-public-private-partnerships-ppp", "tag-beyondelections2016", "tag-bayani-fernando", "tag-education", "tag-henry-sy", "tag-k-to-12", "tag-megawide", "tag-neoliberal-policies", "tag-ppp-in-schools-infrastructure-project", "tag-ppps", "tag-private-schools", "tag-privatized-education", "tag-psip", "tag-public-private-partnerships", "tag-public-schools", "tag-senior-high-school", "wpautop" ], "acf": [], "publishpress_future_action": { "enabled": false, "date": "2026-08-30 13:14:49", "action": "change-status", "newStatus": "draft", "terms": [], "taxonomy": "category", "extraData": [] }, "publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger": { "enabledWorkflows": [] }, "_links": { "self": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471", "targetHints": { "allow": [ "GET" ] } } ], "collection": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts" } ], "about": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post" } ], "author": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3" } ], "replies": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471" } ], "version-history": [ { "count": 1, "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions" } ], "predecessor-version": [ { "id": 5475, "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5475" } ], "wp:featuredmedia": [ { "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5474" } ], "wp:attachment": [ { "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471" } ], "wp:term": [ { "taxonomy": "category", "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471" }, { "taxonomy": "post_tag", "embeddable": true, "href": "https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471" } ], "curies": [ { "name": "wp", "href": "https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}", "templated": true } ] } }