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Administrators, Teachers, and Barangay Officials on Federalism Form of Government Campaign and Challenges to Education: Inputs for Strategic Action Plan for Advocacy Implementation

Kelvin John Gaen

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

This study attempted to determine the awareness and readiness of the school administrators, teachers, and barangay officials of the National Capital Region on the federalism campaign during the School Year 2020-2021 which served as inputs for proposed policy recommendations. The descriptive method of research with the survey questionnaire was used in the study. One hundred thirty-three (103) barangay officials, public school teachers, and school administrators from the National Capital Region served as respondents. The statistical tools used to treat the data were the weighted mean, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product – moment correlation coefficient, and correlated t test. Based on the results, the three groups of respondents were aware to some extent on the campaign of the federalism form of government. Moreover, there was no significant difference on their perceptions as regards to federalism. Meanwhile, their level of readiness in terms of the proposed shift of government system from unitary to federal as far as education in the National Capital Region is concerned was found to be moderately weak which also showed no significant difference among their responses. On the other hand, there was a significant moderate relationship between the respondents’ awareness on the federal form of government and their readiness in the reforms of the federalism form of government and in the distribution of powers of federal government and federal regions. Furthermore, the barangay officials, teachers, and administrators cited challenges posed by the federalism form of government on education.