Text of the provision

Sec. 9. Educational Benefits. - The DECS, CHED and TESDA shall provide the following benefits and privileges:

(1) Scholarship programs for qualified solo parents and their children in institutions of basic, tertiary and technical/skills education; and

(2) Nonformal education programs appropriate for solo parents and their children. The DECS, CHED and TESDA shall promulgate rules and regulations for the proper implementation of this program.

Solo Parents' Welfare Act of 2000, Republic Act No. 8972 (2000). Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified word-for-word against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.

What this section means

DECS, CHED and TESDA must provide scholarship programmes for qualified solo parents and their children in basic, tertiary and technical or skills education, plus nonformal education programmes, and must issue the rules to implement them.

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