Bill Type
Congress Name
Long Title
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CENTER FOR FILIPINO GIFTED CHILDREN AND SCIENCE-ORIENTE D YOUTH, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Date filed
June 26, 2002
Scope
Urgent Bill
No
Legislative History
| House Bill/Resolution NO. House Bill No. 4942, 12th Congress of the Republic | |
| FULL TITLE : AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CENTER FOR FILIPINO GIFTED CHILDREN AND SCIENCE-ORIENTE D YOUTH, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES | |
| ABSTRACT : Global estiamtes indicate that 3% of any given population is gifted. Therefore, in population of 12.4M elementary school children and 5.06M high school students, there should be 374,246 gifted elementary school students and 151,985 gifted high school students. Because of the absence of a concerted program to identify and nurture them, these gifted children are deprived of the opportunity of challenging and appropriate intruction which bring out their best. | |
| PRINCIPAL AUTHOR/S : IPONG, GREGORIO T. | |
| DATE FILED : 2002-06-26 | |
| SIGNIFICANCE: NATIONAL | |
| CO-AUTHORS (Journal Entries) : | |
| 1. Umali (004 ) | 2. Uy (004 ) |
| 3. Ylagan (004 ) | 4. Calalay (006 ) |
| 5. Tulagan (006 ) | 6. Amin (007 ) |
| 7. Antonino-custodio (009 ) | 8. Pingoy (009 ) |
| 9. Del Mar (010 ) | 10. Jaraula (012 ) |
| 11. Villanueva (017 ) | 12. Espinosa (019 ) |
| 13. Soon-ruiz (024 ) | 14. Ramirez-sato (028 ) |
| 15. Mathay (029 ) | 16. Ablan (031 ) |
| 17. Chatto (035 ) | 18. Sandoval (038 ) |
| 19. Zamora (042 ) | 20. Nantes (062 ) |
| ADMINISTRATION BILL? No | |
| URGENT BILL? No | |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES | |
| REFERRAL TO THE COMMITTEE ON BASIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE ON 2002-07-29 | |
| SECONDARILY REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE(S) ON APPROPRIATIONS |
Abstract
Global estiamtes indicate that 3% of any given population is gifted. Therefore, in population of 12.4M elementary school children and 5.06M high school students, there should be 374,246 gifted elementary school students and 151,985 gifted high school students. Because of the absence of a concerted program to identify and nurture them, these gifted children are deprived of the opportunity of challenging and appropriate intruction which bring out their best.
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