Track: Modeling and Simulation

Abstract

The implementation of Senior High School program in the Philippine educational system requires the national government to provide funding to public high schools to address students’ different needs because of different demands required by the different academic tracks offered such as General Academic Strand (GAS), Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS), Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), and Accountancy and Business Management (ABM).  However, there are no standardized budget allocation guidelines being followed by the implementing public high schools.  The lack of a defined and standardized budget allocation process poses a threat on mismanagement of the available budget. Through the defined factors and quantifying the prioritization of the different learning outcomes of the academic programs into priority weights, this paper intends to develop a budget allocation model using Goal Programming. The budget allocation model was developed using the data of different public schools in Cavite.  The results showed an improvement on the achievement of priority weights by an average of 24.76%. The budget allocation model was also translated into a system to allow the public schools to generate the satisficing results on any given year and interpret results with the aid of analytics on the formulated budget.