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CHEd’s ‘pork’ realigned to free tuition program

MANILA, Philippines -- Say goodbye to the Commission on Higher Education's (CHEd) Tulong-Dunong program.   On Wednesday, the Senate decided to realign the proposed P3 billion budget allotted for the program next year to the free tuition program, which is also under CHEd.   The P3 billion budget for Tulong-Dunong was separate from the proposed P43.308 billion allocation of the agency's free tuition program.   This, after Senator Panfilo Lacson insisted during plenary debates in the Senate that the fund for the Tulong-Dunong program was "pork."   To prove his claim, Lacson read a portion of a lawmaker's letter endorsing an official, who would "fa...

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