This document outlines criteria and forms of assistance for an "Expanded Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education Act". It provides tuition fee supplements and scholarships for private school students meeting income requirements. It also provides textbook funding and expands an existing program contracting private schools to provide education. Schools must meet accreditation standards to participate and will face penalties for falsifying information or enrolling ghost students to receive subsidies. The program aims to improve access to private education while ensuring quality and accountability.

2. “Expanded Government
Assistance to Students
and Teachers in Private
Education Act”
Section 1

3. CRITERIA FOR ASSISTANCE
• Tuition fees charged by the schools
• Socio-economic needs of each region
• Over-all performance of the schools.
• Academic qualifications
• Financial needs of students, teachers and school
• Geographic spread and size of student population
Section 3

4. CRITERIA FOR ASSISTANCE
o Enrolled in schools which have accredited or
applying for accreditation recognized by Social
Reform Agenda (SRA).
oFamily Income not more Seventy-thousand pesos
(P 72,000).
Section 3

5. FORMS OF ASSISTANCE
oTuition fee supplements for students in private
high schools, including students in vocational and
technical courses;
oHigh School Textbook Assistance Fund
oExpansion of the existing Educational Service
Contracting ESC (Scheme)
Section 4

6. FORMS OF ASSISTANCE
oThe voucher system of the Private Education Student
Financial Assistance Program [PESFA]; Scholarship
to students graduating as valedictorians and
salutatorians from secondary schools;
o Tuition fee supplements to students in private colleges
and universities; and
oEducation Loan Fund.
Section 4

7. Education Service
Contracting
Section 7

8. Given To Elementary Graduates…
• Who opt to enroll in private high schools under a
formal school setting or Open High School Program
(OHSP)
• Shall start at Grade 7
• Covers four (4) years of junior high school
• Difference between the ESC grant and a private
school’s total school fees is shouldered by the grantee

9. For SY 2016-2017 the ff. Grant levels
apply:
ESC Grants
LEVEL NCR REGIONS OUTSIDE NCR
Grade 7 Php11,000 Php8,500
Grade 8 Php11,000 Php8,500
Grade 9 Php10,000 Php7,500
Grade 10 Php10,000 Php6,500

10. ESC GRANT SELECTION

11. ESC GRANTEE SELECTION

12. Teacher Salary Subsidy
Section 14

13. COVERAGE AND AMOUNT OF
TEACHER SALARY SUBSIDY

14. COVERAGE AND AMOUNT OF
TEACHER SALARY SUBSIDY

15. COVERAGE AND AMOUNT OF
TEACHER SALARY SUBSIDY

16. COVERAGE AND AMOUNT OF
TEACHER SALARY SUBSIDY

17. Quality Assurance of
Participating School

18. QUALITY ASSURANCE OF
PARTICIPATING SCHOOL

19. QUALITY ASSURANCE OF
PARTICIPATING SCHOOL

20. QUALITY ASSURANCE OF
PARTICIPATING SCHOOL

21. Ground for Penalties
Suspension and
Termination

22. GROUND FOR PENALTIES
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
Falsification of data or
information in any of the
program forms and related
attachments.
Penalty:
a minimum suspension of one (1) year
whereby the school shall not be allowed
to recruit freshman grantees.

23. Padding and/or inclusion of “ghost students” in the list of
grantees. This refers to the following:
• Listed grantees absent during a PEAC field audit of
school, whose existence and whereabouts cannot be
sufficiently explained and supported by school
authorities;
• Grantees listed as enrolled in a specific school campus
or unit but are actually attending classes in a different
school campus or unit;
GROUND FOR PENALTIES
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

24. • Grantees listed as “enrolled” but who have not been
attending classes since the opening of classes;
• Grantees double-listed under the ESC program.
SANTIONS & PENALTIES:
• Immediate return of subsidies otherwise
no grade 7 slots the following year
• Proof such as presentation of actual
grantees must be provided to dispute
findings, among others
• Termination from program in extreme
cases

25. •Charging grantees in excess of the school’s total fees
•Non-reimbursement or undue delay in the reimbursement
of tuition and other fees advanced by grantees after the
school has been paid by DepEd
GROUND FOR PENALTIES
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
Penalty:
a documented return of the excess funds
charged by the school and a 50% discount
on any TFOF differential the grantee has to
pay the school the following school year.

26. GROUND FOR PENALTIES
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

27. GROUND FOR PENALTIES
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

28. TREATMENT OF FINDINGS