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This study estimates future demand for public school classrooms using new projections of the school-age children population for 82 provinces and 33 urbanized cities in the Philippines up to 2060. A return to replacement-level fertility from the current total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.9 is expected to ease demand for public school classrooms, except in…
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This study finds that trifocalization has had no statistically significant impact on education outcomes at conventional confidence levels. The empirical results are consistent with findings drawn from the key informant interviews. Further along, the study discusses why a trifocalized PETS might not work as expected. Given its findings, the report lays some reform ideas that…
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This paper aims to supplement information from PISA 2018 using the Longitudinal Cohort Study on the Filipino Child (LCSFC). In particular, it will explore relationships among schooling outcomes, bullying, and a common set of child, belongingness, family, and community background factors. For this analysis, we measured schooling outcome as on track with schooling, i.e., children…