The Municipality of San Isidro: Policy Influence in Local Education Governance

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The Municipality of San Isidro:

Policy Influence in Local Education

GovernanceCapacity Building Documents

Anne Lan K. Candelaria, Ph.D. and Sonia R. Lorenzo with Jess R. Lorenzo

SUMMARY

This case study discusses the engagement between Ateneo Center for EducationalDevelopment (ACED) and the Local Government of San Isidro in the Philippines

between the period 2004 to 2007. It serves as an illustration of the case studyprotocol by Anne Lan Candelaria published as part of the same series.



2 The Municipality of San Isidro: Policy Influence in Local Education Governance

About the Authors




Context

Brief History of the Partnership

1 Local government units in the Philippines are classified based on their income, first class being thewealthiest and sixth class as the poorest.




The Engagement Narrative: Two ViewpointsEngaging San Isidro from the perspective of ACED

2 At that time, ACED comprised of a full-time multi-disciplinary team– Political Science, Social Work,and Psychology trained members. We were also able to access other kinds of expertise from theacademic and professional units of the university on a per-project need. This helped us look at theissue of education development from an interdisciplinary perspective. Hence, we were able to look




for more creative ways of solving community-based problems. San Isidro was our attempt atimplementing a system-wide education reform program (meaning that we implement educationreforms targeting the schools and their immediate communities in San Isidro). The first one wasthe reform program we executed with the public schools in Barangay Payatas, a very dense anddepressed urban poor community adjacent to one of the biggest dumpsites in Quezon City. Themany informal settlers’ main economic activity is garbage scavenging with an average daily incomeof US$3 at the time of the engagement (2001-2004).




Mayor’s Narrative:




Results of the Engagement in Education




Table 1 - Intervention Programs related to Education

Interventions/Programs

Participants OutputPartners

Institution Role

WeekendLeadershipColloquium forPrincipals

All Principals Better disposition of schoolleadership within the contextof Local Government-driveneducation reform

ACED

Colloquiumon theMinistry ofTeaching(CMT)

Facilitatedthe linkbetweenLGU andCMT

Developedtrainingmodules andconductedthe trainingof principals

CCSI Training AsianInstitute ofManagement(BridgingLeadershipProgram)

Developedandimplementedthe trainingfor theprincipals

Writeshop forWorkbookWriting

Master Teachers of San Isidro 10,000 workbooks in Mathand Science distributed to5,700 students

League ofCorporateFoundation

Ateneo de

ManilaUniversity

Parents

Providedcounterpartfunding forrun thewriteshop

Designedandimplementedthewriteshop

Providedpart of theprinting costof theworkbooks

Teacher Training

Public School Teachers

Ateneo deManilaUniversity

Designedandimplemented

the trainingprogram forteachers

Feeding Program School Parents and Teachers Tracking underweight childrenbelow 5 yrs old for 6 months.Parents became more awareof child nutrition which had aneffect in education

JollibeeFoundation

Provided thetechnology,part of thefunding, andtraining ofteachers andparents onschool-basedfeeding




AdditionalTeachers forAlternativeLearning System(ALS)

ALS became more accessibleto out-of-school children whohave the option to continuewith formal schooling later onor learn vocational skills that

will help them find alternativelivelihood opportunities

Local SchoolBoard of SanIsidro

Hired mobileteacherswhose taskwas todeliver

learningmodules forout-of-schoolyouth andencouragedropoutstudents tore-enroll inschool

Table 2 - Comparative Student Performance Indicators of San Isidro

School Year3

2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007

ParticipationRate

93.11 93.08 94.27

RetentionRate

94.33 94.89 96.08

Survival Rate 89.51 90.17 95.73

CompletionRate

88.42 88.76 92.48

TransitionRate

97.68 97.14 98.89

GraduationRate

98.58 98.28 99.74

3 In the Philippines, school starts in June and ends in March of the following calendar year.




Table 3 – National Achievement Test Scores of San Isidro

School Year

2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007

English 70.84 70.78 74.68

Science 53.91 63.42 69.99

Mathematics 72.02 71.58 81.22

Filipino 72.95 70.78 75.25

MAKABAYAN 68.94 72.46 75.25




Policy Influence Lessons: Turning Barriers into SteppingStones




Reflection Questions:

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