Programs
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- High School-a technical vocational high school
(6 high schools -
technical-education program, activities, personnel)
- KSM livelihood program for parents
- Applied family technologies program
- Parent Formation Program/Responsible Parent Program
- Current locations including pictures
- Target expansion areas
High School
The CPF shall provide a Technical Vocational high school curriculum to its students. Objective is to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes of high schoolers to prepare them for employment and self-employment after graduation. The school seeks to develop locally appropriate technology-oriented career paths that would absorb students who do not have the means for higher learning.
Underlying assumption is that coming from economically disadvantaged families, the students are financially unable to go to college. Besides, a college degree does not guarantee employment. However, students can still opt to go to college if they have the financial means and the academic capability, being high school graduates.
To meet this goal of developing the career paths of the students, CPF limits its class size to 30 students and its school size to 200 to 300 per school, depending on the size of the school.
Pre-School
In schoolyear 2004-2005, the DepEd admitted that public elementary school graduates are ill-equipped for high school. Only 6% of elementary school graduates are academically prepared for high school education. The solution that DepEd adopted then was to offer a bridge program in between elementary and high school. Later, it said that the long-term solution to this problem, aside from strengthening the elementary school system, is to strengthen the pre-school system.
It is in this light that CPF opened its pre-school program. Its program is alternative, progressive, integrated, and employs multiple intelligence concepts.
Non-formal education
Non-formal education comes in two types.
One is the Review for the Accreditation and Equivalency Program and the Placement Test (PEPT) of the DepEd. The A&E Program is for out-of-school youth or adults, who would like to take a test to determine is s/he is qualified to get a certificate of equivalency to a high school diploma, entitling him/her to go to college. Age should be 16 or above. The PEPT is open to youth or adults of any age who would take a test to determine their grade or year level.
Another is the Tutorial class for students intending to enroll in CPF in the next schoolyear.
Vocational-technical education for high school, out-of-school youth, and adults
Voc-tech education should be area-specific. It should respond to the needs of the community, and utilize local resource and local labor.
In Metro Manila, CPF is offering three voc-tech programs: computer technology, food technology, and health care. In Palawan, voc tech courses include food technology, fisheries development and eco-tourism. In Sta. Rosa, this include computer technology integrated to agricultural technology.
The Voc-Tech programs can also be offered to out-of-school youths and adults in the community.
Parents Program
The Parents Program includes a Values Formation and a Business Component.
All parents of CPF students shall go through a values formation program as a benefit for enrolling their children in school. This program shall try to level off the values of the school and the parents as school stakeholders.
The Business Component shall be open to parents who have the time, the experience or the determination to engage in economically productive activities as a way to augment their capacity to pay the school's tuition fee or to earn income beyond tuition fee payment.
In this connection, the school partnered with the Marikina Valley Rural Bank and the Builders Bank to start a Tuition Savings Program and a Parent Cooperative Savings Program. The former is a savings program dedicated to pay for the tuition fee. The latter is a parents savings program which they can utilize for whatever the family needs.
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School links are at the bottom of this page.
Technical Vocational Courses Offered
Montalban, San Mateo, and Pateros
· Computer Technology
· Food Technology
· Healthcare
Sta. Rosa, Nueva Ecija
· Organic Farming
· Food Technology
· Computer Technology
· Healthcare
Sicsican, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan
· Fisheries w/Coastal Resource Management
· Eco-tourism
· Food Technology
· Healthcare
*Computer Technology classes (for Montalban, San Mateo, Pateros, and Nueva Ecija) and curriculum are being managed by St. Isidore Information Systems (SIIS) at Ampid, San Mateo, Rizal
*Food Technology classes (for Montalban and San Mateo) and curriculum are being managed by Erinn Pengson, B.S . Food Technology, University of the Philippines, Diliman. Classes are held at St. Martha Food Technology Center located at Manggahan, Montalban, Rizal.
*Healthcare classes (for Montalban, San Mateo, and Pateros) and curriculum are being managed by Mother Theresa School of Practical Nursing located at Pateros, Metro Manila.
High Schools
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Banaba, San Mateo, Rizal
- Gitnang Bayan, San Mateo, Rizal
- Balite, Montalban, Rizal
- Sto. Rosario-Silangan, Pateros
- Puerto Princess, Palawan Farm School
- Sta. Rosa, Nueva Euja Farm School
Pre-Schools
- Sto. Rosario-Silangan, Pateros
- Antipolo, Rizal
- Sapang Palay
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