Youth group slams Aquino for pushing K+12 education
By Rainier Allan Ronda, The Philippine Star
June 06, 2012

MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino administration’s Kindergarten+12 basic education curriculum reform program is bound to fail with inadequate funds allocated to education, a youth group claimed yesterday.

Youth Against Debt (YAD) said the government should adopt the international benchmark for government spending on education, which is six percent of the country’s gross national product (GNP) to provide adequate funds for the K+12 program.

“It is very sad that while this government asserts international standards to implement K+12, they choose to ignore the international benchmark for government spending in education,” Erika Erro, YAD spkesperson, said.

Citing data from the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), Erro said the country would have incurred an accumulated debt of P3.56 billion from 1986 to 2011 if it abided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) standard of six percent GNP provision for universal quality education.

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