SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian has filed a bill that will mobilize local school boards (LSBs) as de facto local literacy councils to achieve "zero illiteracy."

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education deplored reports of low literacy rates among learners in the country.

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