Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sonny Angara said on Wednesday, Sept. 3 that contrary to claims online, it wasn't true that explicit sexual activities were included in the Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) curriculum.

Angara believed that Project Dalisay, a coalition of family and constitutional advocates, simply  received the wrong information—or “nakuryente”, as he put it—when it claimed in a videot that childhood masturbation as well as anal and oral sex were covered by the curriculum.

According to Angara, the information cited by Project Dalisay in its published video titled “Unmasking the Perils of CSE” did not come from official DepEd materials.

“I think the materials they were quoting from were not DepEd materials. I don’t know where the source of the video was, but definitely we do not promote, we do not teach those practices,” the Education chief said.

Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci Cendaña raised the concern during the House Committee on Appropriations' budget hearing on DepEd, as he asked if Angara would categorically tag the video's contets as “fake news”.

Angara, in response, said: “Baka nakuryente lang po doon sa nilagay... baka akala nila galing sa public school yung video na 'yun (They might have been given the wrong information. They might have believed that the information came from a public school)."

House Committee on Basic Education chairman and Pasig lone district Rep. Roman Romulo seemed not pleased with Angara's denial.

Romulo said the House had on its record DepEd's initial copy of curriculum that involved intimate acts. It was later taken down.

"There was an exchange that sort of caught me off-guard, including your response. There was a query about comprehensive sexuality education, and you said fake news yung Dalisay," Romulo told Angara.

Angara denied calling it "fake news" but rather "nakuryente".

"Aling part na nakuryente (Which information was wrong), because I will show you papers from the Department of Education itself... as describing what should be taught from K to 3 which already is not age appropriate," Romulo asked.

Romulo then showed a document to Angara and other officials that contained supposed curriculum teaching "intimacy and reproduction for K to 3".

Angara said the paper "looks like a document purporting to be a DepEd document" that "perhaps, could be the subject of a lecture".

Nevertheless, Angara says what's more important now is that the agency already revised its curriculum and issued a policy "that is more in line with the RH (Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health) Law and more culturally and more context-appropriate".

He said DepEd now has a new approach under CSE, which is focused on RH Law.

"We cover Grades 5 to 12 and we focus on adolescent health. We ensure that the CSE will be age and development-approriate," he said.

"We also don't speak of topics outside the RH," he added, "Pangatlo (Third), we make sure that we also educate our youth about the dangers of unwanted pregnancies."

Angara said the agency will also try "not to make the contents so explicit so those who are most conservative will not get offended", and teach how to prevent sexually transmitted infections.

DepEd is seeking P928.52 billion from  Congress for its 2026 budget.