SUAL – Mirant Philippines Corporation, which operates a 1,200-megawatt power station here, is funding a new building in the town’s Pangascasan Integrated School that will benefit about 200 junior and senior high school students beginning next school year.

The project will be a two-level, six-classroom structure, with one science laboratory with complete amenities under the company’s Adopt-A-School Program with support from Mirant Philippines Foundation, Inc.

Mirant is providing a complementary teacher training program that is aimed at improving the annual achievement rate of elementary students in English, Science and Math by 5% in the next three years from its present level.

The average National Achievement Test (NAT) score of Sual grade V1 students is 57.48%, which is below the national average of 58%. There were also five barangay schools here that registered even lower scores at an average of 31%. Sual hosts 19 elementary schools catering to more than 5,000 students from grades I to V1.

Jose Bonafe, Mirant’s senior manager for support services, pointed out that the building project was originally intended for implementation in the next two years but Jose Leviste Jr., who took over as chairman and chief executive officer of Mirant Philippines in April 2006, decided to fastrack the project due to its urgency.

The school building project and the six-month teachers training program that will benefit all Sual elementary school teachers will be undertaken by Mirant in coordination with the Department of Education (Dep-Ed)-National Educators Academy of the Philippines and the Dep-Ed Division Office Pangasinan 1 and Eduquest, Inc.

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