Department of Education

Plans for the Senior HS Voucher Program

Undersecretary Francisco M. Varela

August 8, 2014
 Projected SHS Enrollment, 2016-2018
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2.5
0.67 0.68
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1.5
0.35
1 2.03 2.14
0.5 1.08
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2016 2017 2018
Public SHS Enrollment Private SHS Enrollment

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 Pure public provision
Pure public provision would place enormous management and
budgetary strain on DepED. We would need to:
• Build 57,100 classrooms
• Hire 82,400 specialized teachers

Moreover, key decisions would also need to be made on:

• What tracks and specializations to offer in which schools
• What tools, equipment, facilities are needed by which schools
• Where to source specialized teachers and how to deploy them
effectively in which schools

These institutional pressures could be reduced contingent upon

the willingness and capacity of the private sector and other non-
DepED providers to offer SHS .

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 Why expand private provision in SHS?

Pragmatic Fundamental

• Address reduced Greater • Greater diversity in supply

enrollments in HEIs Private • Greater dynamism in the
• Reduce institutional Participation system
pressures on public school in SHS • Greater autonomy
system • Greater student choice
• Minimize upfront capital
cost

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 Senior High School Voucher

• Republic Act No. 10533, enacted in 2013, provides for

the expansion of the GASTPE program to SHS,
including the implementation of a voucher program

• Voucher: expands student choice

– Is easily scalable and administratively feasible
– Minimizes discretion and conflict of interest
– Has built-in accountability mechanisms that leads to
improvements in quality

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Key Features of the Voucher Program

• Greater private participation in SHS provision

through a voucher program
• Voucher amounts aligned to public cost of provision
• Vouchers to be distributed to all public and ESC
Grade 10 graduates, including eligible private, non-
ESC Grade 10 graduates
• Voucher as a long term program of the DepEd

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Agreements on SHS Voucher
Recipients
• Eligible voucher recipients:
– All public Grade 10 graduates
– All Grade 10 ESC graduates from
private schools
– Some Grade 10 graduates from
private schools, subject to
application
• Target: approx. 40% of public
JHS graduates availing of
vouchers every year
• Vouchers must be used in the
school year immediately
following graduation.
• Voucher recipients will receive
subsidy until they graduate
from Grade 12, regardless of
transfer of school.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 Agreements on Voucher Tiering
• Voucher amount approximates public cost of provision
– Tier 1: based on regional clusters (3-4 groupings)
– Tier 2: based on type of beneficiary
– public Grade 10 graduate: full voucher value
– ESC/private Grade 10 graduate: approx. 80% of full value
• Voucher amount is determined by the location of the school where an
SHS student is enrolled in.

Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 Cluster 4

• Full value: • Full value: • Full value: • Full value:

P15,000 P17,500 P20,000 P22,500
• Approx • Approx • Approx. • Approx
80% value: 80% value: 80% value: 80% value:
P12,000 P14,000 P16,000 P18,000

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 SHS Voucher Eligibility Process

August 2015 January 2016

Grade 10 Students
are identified Grade 10 Students
Early Registration is
through DepEd LIS are notified of their
conducted for SHS.
and FAPE ESC eligibility.
system.

June 2015
June 2016 March 2016

Students enroll in Grade 10 students

public and non- graduate: final list of
DepEd SHS. eligible recipients.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 Agreements on SHS Providers
• All licensed SHS providers are
allowed to participate.
• Voucher amounts will vary for
SUCs and LUCs. Private
• Private schools are encouraged to HS
minimize or to provide additional
subsidies to cover top-up fees.
• An additional subsidy is being Private
TVIs
considered for selected tracks Licensed HEIs
and electives. Accreditation of SHS
programs may be required for Providers
this program.
• Joint delivery of programs will be
allowed.
– DepEd/Non-DepEd school offers LUCs SUCs
core curriculum while TVI offers
tech-voc curriculum strand.
• Reports on attendance or grades
of voucher students may be
required on a periodic basis.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 SHS Voucher Redemption Process
June 2016
Students enroll in
public and in licensed
(and accredited, for
additional subsidy)non-
DepEd SHS. Some
students may enroll
with vouchers.
July/August 2016
Non-DepEd schools submit
the list of voucher
recipients/billing statement
through the voucher
management system.
Checks are made in the
system to ensure there are
no errors in the billing
statement (on names and
voucher amounts, etc).

March 2016
Grade 11 completers are
Payments are made Periodic reports on
promoted to Grade 12.
directly to non-DepEd attendance may be
Same process follows for
schools’ accounts. required.
new batch of students.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 SHS Voucher Implementation

• Jan: Issuance of policy

on non-DepEd
participation in SHS
2015 • First Quarter:
• Apr: Issuance of Early enrollment
provisional SHS licenses; • First Quarter: announce for SHS
start development of policy on application for
Voucher Management vouchers for non-public, • June 2016: SHS
System non-ESC students Implementation
• Second Quarter: • Second Quarter:
Resolve tiering and rider Voucher Management
policy issues; joint System in place
delivery of prorams. • Third Quarter:
• Third Quarter: Finalize announce eligibility of
SHS voucher policy and beneficiaries and SHS
incorporate in 2016 providers database
budget. uploaded online
2016
2014
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 Recap: SHS Policy Agreements

Beneficiaries
Vouchers given to all
Grade 10 public and ESC
graduates and select
private school graduates.
Providers
All licensed SHS providers
can redeem vouchers.
Voucher
Tiering
Tiered on a regional basis
and by type of beneficiary.

Voucher must be A n additional subsidy may

redeemed in the school be provided for special
year immediately after tracks but this will entail
graduation. accreditation.
Voucher values redeemed
Subsidy is provided to based on location of SHS
Joint delivery of programs provider.
voucher recipients until
will be allowed.
they graduate in Grade 12.

A SHS Voucher Management System will be developed to facilitate registration and redemption
of vouchers, processing of payment and reporting and monitoring of performance of students.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 Next Steps for DepEd

• Major communication on SHS Voucher Program to enable

private/non-DepEd schools to invest in and mobilize for
Senior High School (SHS) prior to 2016 and to get feedback
from stakeholders.

• Ongoing development of the voucher management system,

processing of applications for SHS provisional licenses and
refinement of program features.

• Close coordination of DepEd Division Offices with

private/non-DepEd schools and other key stakeholders to
come up with a clear strategy and operations plan for the
implementation of SHS

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION