By Billy Begas
The House Committee on Appropriations has endorsed for plenary approval the proposed creation of the Philippine High School for Creative Arts (PHSCA) System to promote creative creation among Filipinos.
Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said the measure would implement the provision of the Constitution mandating the State to give priority to arts and culture.
“However, despite the constitutional mandate, there has been little attention given to arts and culture by our government. Arts and culture is the heart of our country, and we get our identity as a nation from it,” said Rodriguez, one of the authors of the measure.
Under the bill, the proposed high school system for creative arts would offer “full scholarships to deserving students with considerable potential in the fields of performing arts, creative writing, visual arts, and applied arts.”
Admitted students will be trained under a special curriculum oriented in the fields of cinema, dance, dramatic arts, music, visual arts, design, digital fabrications and new media.
The system would be attached administratively to the Department of Education (DepEd) in consultation with the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
It would be governed by a board of trustees jointly chaired by the DepEd secretary or his duly designated undersecretary and the NCCA chairperson or executive director.
The board shall include two representatives from the fields of performing arts, visual arts and applied arts. The board is authorized to hire foreign educators and consultants.
The PHSCA System is also authorized to enter into a memorandum of agreement with local government units and locally funded high schools for the arts to make them as extension campuses or branches.
The system is also allowed to receive donations, which shall be exempted from donor’s tax and may be deducted from gross income that will be taxed.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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