On the eve of President Aquino's second year in power, students, young teachers, church and community youth united to condemn the government's K+12 program.
At a forum held Friday at the Philippine Normal University (PNU), a state-run institution which drafted some parts of what the protesters claimed was the "anti-nationalist and colonial" K +12 curriculum, youth groups pledged to stop Aquino's flagship education program.
The K+12, implemented by the Department of Education despite the absence of an enabling law and overruling the current mandatory 10-year education cycle, is expected to be railroaded by Congress upon its resumption of sessions on July 23..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/nation/item/908-k%2012-graduates-to-swell-unemployment-%E2%80%94-anakbayan
