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The Department of Education (DepEd) lauded President Rodrigo Duterte and lawmakers for increasing the budget for teaching and connectivity allowances to assist public school teachers and learners amidst the pandemic. In the General Appropriations Act (GAA) for 2021 signed by President Duterte recently, DepEd was given the budget allocation to increase the teaching supplies and […]
The Department of Education (DepEd) will only allow the conduct of face-to-face (F2F) classes after the approval of President Rodrigo Duterte and the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID). This is the pronouncement of Secretary Leonor Briones in a virtual press briefing in Malacañang, clarifying that no face-to-face classes is still the standing […]
The Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Health (DOH), and UNICEF joined together for the first time recently to celebrate Global Handwashing Day and to campaign for Clean Hands for All amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In a Learning and Partnership Symposium conducted virtually, the three institutions jointly pointed out that from the policy-level […]
Six months since the World Health Organization declared the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic, learners and teachers returned to schools virtually as the country’s academic year 2020 to 2021 officially opened. “More than 61,000 schools offering K to 12 Basic Education Program reopened to serve about 24,753,906 learners – 22,525,282 enrollees in […]
The Department of Education (DepEd) is all set to welcome School Year 2020-2021 through its National School Opening Day Program on October 5, 2020, Monday. To kick-off with a nationwide simultaneous flag-raising ceremony by 7:30am, the program will be led by Secretary Leonor Briones, who will give an inspirational message and formally declare the opening […]
The Department of Education (DepEd) tapped United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist in the implementation of the Basic Education-Learning Continuity Plan to Kindergarten to Grade 3 students through ABC+ project. Started last July 2019, ABC+ project is a 5-year partnership of USAID and DepEd that aims to improve literacy, numeracy, and social […]
Education Secretary Leonor Briones said the dry run for classes under the “new normal” will continue despite the school opening being moved to October 5. “While the simulations are going on, we will continue to upskill teachers and prepare our learners for the new way, or as I would say, for the brave normal, which […]