So when the Department of Education (DepEd) last year offered the senior high school (SHS) voucher program to help subsidize Grade 10 finishers who wanted to pursue SHS education in private schools, Ciasico grabbed the opportunity. There were other 1,499 recipients of the SHS voucher program in Ciasico’s school. For many poor students like Ciasico, the program is a lifeline to a better education, providing beneficiaries a DepEd subsidy ranging from P8,750 to P22,500. ADVERTISEMENT“Not all public high schools offer all four tracks of the SHS program. The SHS program has four tracks: academic, technical-vocational-livelihood, sports and arts & design.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 04, 2017 17:37 UTC