MANILA, Sept. 1 (PNA) — Considered as one of the country’s most high-tech and advanced math and science schools, the Valenzuela City School of Mathematics and Science was inaugurated on Monday after six months of construction.
Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian has also dubbed the new city school as the “best education investment our city has ever made” for its state-of-the-art facilities composed of chemistry, biology, physics, and robotics laboratories.
The laboratories are equipped with six Smart Boards complete with Internet access.
The construction of the four-storey, 20-classroom building is under the Valenzuela City’s Education 360º Investment Program.
Apart from school building construction, the program also includes feeding programs, provision of school supplies, and trainings for students, parents, and teachers.
“This is a large-scale investment to shore up the local education system,” Gatchalian said.
Meanwhile, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Armin Luistro has commended the efforts being made by Valenzuela City to build schools and also to take part in addressing classroom congestion in the city.
“I am very much impressed by this city’s investment in education. Aside from this new city school, Valenzuela City has found solutions for the decongestion of schools within their area through the ‘busing system,’ by transferring students from one school to another,” Luistro said.
The DepEd chief also expressed hope that the newly- inaugurated math and science school “will be able to produce our country’s best and brightest scientists.”
At least 769 students of the former Valenzuela City Science High School, which only had 13 classrooms and a single science laboratory, will be the first beneficiaries of the new school. (PNA)