QUEZON CITY, Sept. 22 (PIA)–Mayor Herbert Bautista is pressing for the setting up of special education centers in each of the city’s 146 public schools to provide children with special needs wider access to education and other services.
“We have to make sure that each of the city’s public schools should dedicate a special classroom for SPED classes,” Bautista said as he underscored the need to provide children with special needs equal playing field with ordinary children to enable them to fully develop their abilities, talents, interests.
Based on the records of the Division of City Schools, there are only 44 public elementary and 13 secondary schools offering special education program. QC elementary schools have 3,106 SPED enrollees while high schools have 350.
The expansion of the city’s SPED Program forms part of the QC’s Public Health Modernization Program, which dovetails the city’s continuing effort to provide its constituents with better health care services.
To date, QC maintains a Special Children’s Board which was formed in 2010 to protect and promote the wellbeing of special children in the city. (QC PAISO/RJB/SDL/PIA-NCR)
