Capiz schools division to have 5 new principals
ROXAS CITY – Five new principals will add to the Capiz schools division's force this opening of classes.
The five new principals for Capiz are among the 1,800 appointees of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this week.
Dr. Eveleth Gamboa, Assistant Schools Division Superintendent for Capiz, confirmed that the appointment of five new principal applicants from the Division was already signed.
Gamboa revealed that the Division here has several vacant positions for school principal items.
Malacañang disclosed that President Arroyo's recent signing of new principal items will bring to 2,100 new principal items that are given allotment in the 2008 budget.
The President has encouraged the upgrading of skills of teachers and to have all schools in the country to be headed by a principal in a move to deliver quality education to all especially the poor.
Education Secretary Jesli Lapus said that the upgrading of the head teachers and master teachers who passed the qualifying exams would fill the gap in the number of schools without principals and only headed by a master teacher.
''The biggest number of new principals happened this year. Four thousand schools will now have new principal because at the DepEd there are 24 thousand schools nationwide headed only by a master teacher," Lapus said.
He said this is a mass upgrade in a move to have all the schools nationwide to be headed by a principal.
Meanwhile, Gamboa disclosed that they are already in the process of consolidating the list of about 600 teacher applicants in the Division here who are included in the Registry of Qualified Applicants (RQA) for teaching position. (PIA/Jemin B. Guillermo)