Key:education_program
 education_program
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This is a stub page to document education_program=* usage in the Philippines.
Background
In 2021, the OpenStreetMap community in the Philippines completed their OSMaPaaralan project which approximately added 98% of public schools. The country's OSM dataset for schools is considered to be the most accurate, that is freely available.
The mapping initiative used the key education_program=* to classify specialist schools other than those that follow the general-learning, mainstream curriculum that is common among all public schools. Examples of such schools are those that offer a curriculum focusing on Science or Math, Art schools, or schools that cater to students with additional, or special needs.
Usage of specialized_education=*
The most common use of this key in the country always follow the form: education_program=specialized_education + specialized_education=*, which identify the schools that follow a specialized program. Schools that follow general-learning program will not have this tag, although in theory it could possibly have been tagged with something like, education_program=mainstream.
Below are the top values in current use:
Expansion plans
With most public schools already mapped, AusomeMaps introduced a MapRoulette challenge during the Pista ng Mapa 2022 conference, the goal of expanding the usage and details for schools tagged with specialized_education=special_needs, and adding healthcare facilities that cater especially for learners with disabilities.
As of 2023, meetings and consultations within the local community, and other stakeholders are on-going; with the goal of documenting the intended tag usage, and prepare a proposal to the community. They already secured a list ~7,000 schools, and the necessary permission-to-use with OSM from a government agency that oversee these schools, and will undergo review and validation with other organizations they are working with.