The Standard - 2016 June 14 - Tuesday

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VOL. XXX NO. 122 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 TUESDAY : JUNE 14, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Gunman kills 50 in Florida gay venue

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K-12 WILL FORCE .4M TO DROP OUT

But DepEd’s Luistro says figure ‘lower than usual’ By John Paolo Bencito and Sandy Araneta

BETWEEN 200,000 and 400,000 students who finished Grade 10 are not expected to go on to two more years of senior high school under the K-12 program this year, but Education Secretary Armin Luistro said this is lower than the 50 percent dropout rate in previous years.

“Definitely, the enrollees for Grade 11 will be much, much more than half of the historical numbers that we were seeing when we had fourth year high school,” Luistro said. “For the first time in history we have a national database of enrolled Grade 11 students both public and private,” he added. Luistro’s statements came amid

reports of low enrollee turnout on the first day of school and nationwide protests by youth groups against the K-12 program. As of Monday, the DepEd national server has received over 600,000 enrollment lists from more than half of the 11,000 schools offering SHS, Luistro said. Most of the schools that were not yet able to encode enrollment

data are public schools located in remote areas and private schools that will begin the school year in July or August, he added. Luistro said there are at least 1.1 million Grade 11 students already enrolled in various schools offering SHS nationwide. An estimated 700,000 to 800,000 Grade 11 students are enrolled Next page

First day. Hundreds of students crowd into Corazon C. Aquino Elementary School in Quezon City on the first day of classes on Monday. MANNY PALMERO

Neglect of infra will end, vows Diokno

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Trudeau to probe reports of new beheading OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday it was likely that a Canadian kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf bandits nearly nine months ago has been killed. “It is with deep sadness that I have reason to believe that a Canadian citizen, Robert Hall, held hostage in the Philippines since Sept. 21, 2015, has been killed by his captors,” Trudeau

said in a statement. Members of the notorious kidnapfor-ransom Abu Sayyaf gang said they would murder Hall if they did not receive P300-million ransom by Monday. “While Canadian officials are working closely with authorities in the Philippines to formally confirm Mr. Hall’s death, we have compelling reason to believe that reports to this effect are,

unfortunately, true,” Trudeau said. “The vicious and brutal actions of the hostage-takers have led to a needless death. Canada holds the terrorist group who took him hostage fully responsible for this cold-blooded and senseless murder.” Hall was among four people abducted in September last year from aboard Next page


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