Tags: League of Filipino Students (LFS)

PRESS RELEASE Sept 15, 2010 “The 2010 proposed budget of the Aquino administration is no reform budget. It is no different from the nine years of Arroyo appropriations where spending in education and social services are severely curtailed.” This was the statement of Terry Ridon, Chairperson of the League of Filipino Students as militant students…

NEWS RELEASE September 8, 2010 Student leaders from University of the Philippines, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippine Normal University, Eulogio Amang Rodriguez Institue of Science and Technology and national student leaders from National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), League of Filipino Students, College Editors’ Guild of the Philippines, Anakbayan and Kabataan Partylist…

BY HANNAH FAITH S. DORMIDO Bulatlat Posted 5:25 p.m., May 15, 2008 Youth groups staged a protest action in front of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to demand an immediate moratorium on tuition increases given the present socio-economic crisis. “Parents are now being forced to choose between sending their children to school or spending…

BY Angelica Campo NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Two days after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo admitted that it was her voice in the wiretapped phone conversations, around 400 persons from Metro Baguio gathered for a mini concert initiated by youth groups at Malcolm Square, here last June 30. The concert was their…

Education Secretary Edilberto de Jesus admits that shortages in classrooms and teachers throughout the country have increased to 42,641 and 51,319, respectively. Fifty percent of public schools, he said, have no principals at all. Meanwhile, students threaten to walk out on school opening June 21 to protest government neglect. By Ronalyn V. Olea Bulatlat.com The…