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SPECIAL PROGRAM IN JOURNALISM

Region VIII

Palo National High School

Palo, Leyte

History Of Palo National High School

Palo National High School is a public school in Palo, Leyte, Philippines exclusively for high school students. It was founded in 1993 with 157 students.

     The Palo National High School had its beginning in the year 1993 - 1994 exactly during the second term of Congressman Cirilo "Roy" Montejo of the First District of Leyte. It is a public knowledge that Palo, a first class municipality do not have a public high school right in the poblacion, and upon knowing its significant fact, the Honorable Congressman sponsored a bill in the Philippine Congress for the creation of a public high school to give way to the less previledge and poor but deserving student, of their desire for a higher and quality education, and the bill was approved and that Palo National High School is now a reality.

     It started with three sections in the first year with a total enrolment of 157 students, with four teachers directly supervised by the Assistant Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Catalina G. Daffon.

Two sections were permanently housed in the newly constructed two room building and the other section temporarily occupied a room owned by Palo Central School. By June 1994 this school will observe its first founding anniversary.

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SPJ

The Special Program in Journalism (SPJ) is developed to enrich the experiences, hone the journalistic skills and competences of student-writers and to strengthen free and responsible journalism

In response to the need of raising the level of competence of secondary school students on the various aspects of journalism, the Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE) of the Department of Education (DepEd) designed a Special Program in Journalism that primarily aims to enrich the experiences, hone the journalistic skills and competences of student-writers, and to strengthen free responsible journalism in secondary schools.

This program supports R.A. 7079 or the Campus Journalism Act of 1991, which mandates the Department of Education "to conduct and implement programs in various aspects of Journalism."