Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez has lauded the third-reading approval by the House of Representatives of a consolidated bill establishing the Presidential Merit Scholarship Program.
“The program aims to widen access to quality education of graduating senior high school students not only from poor families but from other financially challenged and middle-class households as well,” he said.
Romualdez’s House Bill (HB) 5763 was incorporated into the consolidated measure, principally authored by Majority Leader Ferdinand Alexander Marcos of Ilocos Norte.
“The program will extend substantial financial assistance to the cream of the crop in senior high school. Hopefully, we can produce the best and the brightest professionals who can be our country’s future leaders among these graduating senior high school graduates,” the House leader said.
Romualdez said he also hopes that program beneficiaries will choose fields of higher education whose graduates are in demand in the country and abroad.
“This will expedite their employment so they can be of help to their families as soon as possible,” Romualdez said.
