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The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
The Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) was a discretionary fund in the Philippines available to members of Congress.Originally established as the Countrywide Development Fund (CDF) in 1990, it was designed to allow legislators to fund small-scale infrastructure or community projects which fell outside the scope of the national infrastructure program, which was often restricted to ...
The Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE) is a perpetual trust fund for private education created by Executive Order № 156 s. 1968 [1] and amended by Executive Order № 150 s. 1994. [ 3 ]
Due to their success, other immigrants from the Philippines followed to be educated in the United States, in excess of 14,000. Many of these non-pensioned students ended up permanently residing in the United States. In 1943, the program ended. It was the largest American scholarship program until the Fulbright Program was established in 1948.
On May 28, 1959, it was officially registered with SEC as the University of Southern Philippines Foundation. Envisioning the eventual congestion at the Mabini Campus and noting the trend of dispersal among educational institutions in the suburbs, Don Agustin Jereza in 1962 established the USP Lahug Campus, which is located in Salinas Drive.
Oct. 14—Funds from scholarship granting organizations can help several dozen students attend St. Joseph Catholic School, Catholic officials say. The school received $23,090 from the Veritas Tax ...
San Sebastian College – Recoletos (SSC-R), commonly known by its nickname Bastê, is a private Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution run by the Order of Augustinian Recollects in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is one of the six schools owned and operated by the Order of Augustinian Recollects in the
The Washington Post argued in a new editorial that the benefits of gender-transition treatments for minors like puberty blockers have not been scientifically proven. "Treatment results that look ...