00:00A fine, fair, and hopefully drive once a afternoon to all of you.
00:05Yours truly, Clay Zell Pardelia here, and this is PTV News Now.
00:09Tops and our stories this afternoon.
00:13It was a legacy or defining achievement his chief political rival left before stepping down from the presidency.
00:20One, his predecessor President Rodrigo Duterte, decided to keep which he intends to improve.
00:26Earlier today, the President stressed his wish to keep the program in place as mandated by the law,
00:33but wants a tweak to better serve a huge public school studentry and prep them for their entry to the working world
00:41with the appropriate skills they need for their chosen vocation or professional trade or for higher learning.
00:49The President made clear in a podcast last month his frustration with the gaps and pitfalls in the program,
00:56which lacked comprehensive preparation prior to its rollout in school year 2012 to 2013.
01:03He later instructed his Education Czar Secretary San Angada to strengthen the curriculum and fill in the gaps.
01:11And despite the major drawbacks such as a lack of classrooms, school facilities, shortfalls in funding,
01:18limited resources, limited resources, and competency in training and teaching,
01:21the President is hell-bent to improve and sustain the program.
01:26The financial strain alone on families trying to cope with day-to-day needs is the chief reason
01:32for reduced enrollment numbers since the debut of the program nearly 13 years ago.
01:39The new cast of the impeachment court to hear and preside over the trial of the sitting Vice President
01:48will take their oaths as jurors before the sitting or new Senate President no later than July 29.
01:56Impeachment Court Spokesperson Reggie Tungwal in a presser earlier today stressed that
02:02oath-taking of the new senator judges of the 20th Congress can only proceed with the presence of presiding officer,
02:10the Senate President in this case of the impeachment court who gets to be elected
02:15only after Congress' ceremonial opening on July 28 or Sona Day.
02:21So it's either incumbent Senate President Francis Escudero or someone else,
02:27Senator Tito Soto or Senator Aini Marcos perhaps,
02:31who will be administering the oath of the impeachment court on July 28 or the day after.
02:37The new jurors of the impeachment court of the 20th Congress are Senators Erwin Tulfo,
02:43Rodante Marcoleta, Camille Villar, Pan-Poloping Lacson, Vicente Tito Soto, Francis Pangilinan, and Bam Aquino.
