Enia and I visited the city of Palo, just outside the capital of city of Tacloban to meet with the superintendent of schools for the island, Aurora Aquino-Villarente and her assistant superintendents, Mr. Segio Samoria (standing) and Mrs. Vicenta Alibangbang (seated to my far left). Mrs. Lilia C. Arbas, a retired teacher, was kind of enough to escort us to the department headquarters and introduce us to the superintendent and assistant superintendents. She is the second person from the right.
The Leyte school system is the largest in the Philippines. There are 246,000 elementary students and 86,000 high school students. The system employs more than 9,000 teachers in 62 school districts comprised of 1,152 elementary schools and 112 secondary schools.
We discussed a number of ideas for collaboration between the Eastchester Schools and schools on Leyte.
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