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Senate prioritizes Tuba high school construction
By Macarthy B. Malanes

TUBA, Benguet –- Barangay folk in Poblacion of this town have reason to rejoice with the assurance of Sen. Mar Roxas establishment of Tuba Central National High School is already up for prioritization by the Senate Committee on Education this year.

Roxas, who assumed chairmanship of the Senate committee on education last year, recently informed Poblacion Punong Barangay Alfredo Saingan and other local officials through a letter that his committee scheduled for third reading committee report 155 “An Act Establishing a National High School in Barangay Poblacion, Tuba, Benguet to be known as Tuba Central National High School (TCNHS)” contained in House Bill No. 3914.

“I have taken up in my committee and scheduled for third reading Committee Report No. 155.
I shall ensure its prioritization,” Roxas said in the letter.

The House of Representatives during the previous Congress had approved the House Bill on the establishment of TCNHS authored by Benguet Rep. Samuel Dangwa but the previous Senate failed to concur this measure prompting the Benguet solon to re-file another bill in the present congress.

The clamor of the community to have a separate and independent public high school in Poblacion started when the Tuba National High School-Poblacion Annex was established in 2002.

In 2004, the Tuba Municipal Government had already allotted a half hectare of its lot adjacent to the Tuba Central Elementary School as the site of the TNHS-Poblacion Annex. This school annex eventually grew in terms of enrollment, number of teachers and physical facilities.

Noting the growth of the school annex coupled with the need to establish an independent public high school right at the center of Tuba town, the parents and local officials here have forwarded several requests and resolutions for the establishment of TCNHS.