The education voucher system is a government program that provides tuition assistance to disadvantaged students to attend private high schools. It aims to reduce overcrowding in public schools and improve access to quality education. The program issues tuition vouchers worth ₱5,000 per student annually that can be used to cover partial or full private school tuition. Students from low-income families who meet the private schools' admission requirements are eligible. The vouchers can be used for all four years of high school if the student remains in good standing. The program is funded publicly and privately, and payments are made directly to participating private schools.

1. Education Voucher
System
Reporters:
CHERRY MAE T. CAÑETE
KRISTEL T. CAÑETE

2. It is a system through which parents
are given tuition certificate, funded
by the government or a private
organization, which can be used to
pay for all or part of the tuition for a
child to attend a participating private
school.
What is Education Voucher
System?

3. EVS is program provided by Republic
Act 8545 or the “Expanded
Government Assistance to Students
and Teachers in Private Education”
(E-GASTPE)
It was launched in March 2006.

4. To decongest the overcrowded
public high school by awarding
vouchers to students in DepEd-
Identified priority areas.
Goals of EVS:
To reduce the class size to
manageable level in high school.

5. To improve access to quality basic
education at the secondary level
through government financial
assistance to poor but deserving
elementary graduates.

6. Provide disadvantage students
with opportunity to attend private
schools in order for them to
receive a better education.
Purposes of Voucher
Program:

7. To create competition for the
public school so that they will
improve their instructional
programs.
How the program funded?
Publicly-Funded
Privately-Funded

8. Applicant meet the admission
requirement of the school
Criteria for selection of
grantees:
Applicants from families whose
incomes are within or below the
poverty thresholds.

9. 
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10. Amount and Terms
Subsidy for all grantees from 1st to
4th year level shall be at P5,000 per
grantee/year
General Guidelines

11. • The subsidy cover the entire four
(4) years of high school in an EVS
participating private high school
provided the grantee is promoted
to the subsequent year level until
he graduates.

12. The subsidy ceases when the
grantee drops, fail a year level, or
transfer to a non- participating
private school, except in cases due
to sickness and if he/she able to
provide medical certificate.

13. The subsidy is only partial when a
school’s tuition and other fees
exceed P5,000.
DepEd Central Accounting Division
shall make payments of grants to
participating school through school
bank accounts with the Land Bank of
the Philippines(LBP).

14. School LBP accounts must be in
the official name of the school. No
payment shall be made directly to
a person, whether he or she is a
grantee or a school official.

15. Only government-recognized
private secondary schools may
participate in the program
provide they passed the
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM and
have dropout reduction program.

16. Ground for Suspension or
Termination of School
Participation
*Falsification of data or information
in any of the program forms and
related attachments

17. *Padding and/or inclusion of “ghost
students” in the list of grantees.
*Charging grantees in excess of a
school’s actual tuition and other
fees.

18. *Undue delay or non-reimbursement
of tuition and other fees advance by
grantees.
*Double listing of grantees in both
ESC and EVS.

20. THANK YOU ! ! !
For Listening..