8/16/2019 BRIGADA ESKWELA-Phil

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BACKGROUND

 The education of the Filipino youth is everybody’s concern. While government is tasked to

provide free and quality education to every Filipino child and youth, the community where

they grow is an important stakeholder in their education. The private sector, which will

sooner or later employ these young Filipinos, is also an important stakeholder in their

education. The successful collaboration of all these stakeholders is therefore pivotal inensuring that Filipino children and youth go to school, remain in school and learn in school. It

poses a great challenge to educational stakeholders.

It was with this spirit of volunteerism and publicprivate partnership for education that

!epublic "ct #$%$, or the &"dopt"'chool "ct( was made in )**#. Through the "dopt"

'chool +rogram "'+-, private sector companies and professionals are given the opportunity

to contribute in improving the public education system of the country. To recognie their

goodwill, they can avail of ta/ incentives of up to )$01. 2ver the years, the "dopt"'chool

+rogram has attracted more than %00 partners, generating some +3 billion worth of pro4ects

and interventions.

In its e5ort to bring the spirit of the "dopt"'chool +rogram to the community level andma/imie civil participation and utilie local resources to improve the public schools, the

6epartment of 7ducation launched the 8ational 'chools 9aintenance Week in 9ay %00:.

6ubbed, ;rigada 7skwela, the program brought together teachers, parents and community

members every third week of 9ay to work together in repairing and preparing public schools

for school opening. In the spirit of bayanihan, private institutionsommittee. This will provide information in monitoring the school’s progress in

accomplishing the ;7 work plan. These data will also be the basis for the drafting and

?naliation of school’s accomplishment reports to be submitted to the district and division

o@ces at the end of the ;rigada 7skwela.

What should be particularly documented