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“It is no secret that textbooks in public elementary and high schools are limited in number and, as result, our students are forced to share or borrow from one another,” said Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte, author of House Bill (HB) No.8020.
“This difficulty is even more evident in the time of COVID-19 when there is a shift to blended or distance learning. The sharing of materials among groups of students still exists because of the shortage of printed modules,” noted the former three-term provincial governor.
Also known as the proposed Book Publishing Industry Development Act (BPIDA), HB No.8020 institutionalizes the digitization of all contents used by publishers participating in the Public School Textbook Program (PSTP).
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