EDUCATION SERVICE CONTRACTING (ESC) and EDUCATION VOUCHER SYSTEM (EVS)

ESC and EVS are aimed at democratizing and improving access to quality secondary education through government extension of financial assistance to deserving public elementary school graduates who wish to pursue their secondary education in private schools. The amount of subsidy is Five Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P5,500.00) per grantee for the entire school year.

The following guidelines shall apply:

1. The grant covers the four (4) years of secondary education from First Year to graduation. Grantees can start only at the First Year Level. No new grants shall apply at higher year levels.
2. The grant is deemed renewed for the next school year provided the student is promoted to the next year level and enrolls in the same school. Since ESC and EVS are systems of financial assistance to the grantees, no maintaining grade shall be required for retention in the program.
3. The grant is deemed terminated for any one of the following reasons:
• If the student drops out for non-health reasons in the middle of the school year.
• If the student has not applied for an official leave and does not re-enroll the following year.
• If the student is retained at the same year level or otherwise not promoted to the next higher year level.
• If the student is suspended for more than 2 weeks or dismissed or expelled by the school for disciplinary violations.
• If the student transfers to a non-ESC participating school.
4. For reasons of force majeure, a grantee may be allowed to continue enjoying the grant.
5. All efforts must be taken to save the grantee from dropping out. Grantees-at-risk of dropping out may be placed in the Open High School program and provided with appropriate intervention to address the causes of dropping out.
6. A grantee may apply for transfer to another ESC participating school.
7. Transfers from outside the National Capital Region (NCR) into NCR are not allowed. Transfers from NCR to participating schools outside the NCR may be allowed but the amount of the grant is reduced accordingly.

Students enjoying any of the scholarships offered and/or vying for honors are required to be morally upright, loyal, compliant to school rules and regulations, manifest other qualities becoming of a model student. All the other conditions stipulated in the university guidelines for scholarships signed by both student and the parent must be satisfied.