ILOILO CITY – Almost 3,000 public schools in Western Visayas region shifted to remote classes due to the “habagat” (southwest monsoon) and tropical depression “Gener.” The Department of Education-6 said that physical classes were suspended in 2,957 public schools as of Tuesday, September...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) Two ranking members of the House of Representatives has slammed Vice President Sara Duterte’s “apparent incompetence” in utilizing the Department of Education’s (DepEd) 2023 Disaster Risk...
To assess their preferences for availing of medical services, the Department of Education (DepEd) has started conducting an online survey among its employees. (DepEd / Manila Bulletin) In an advisory issued on Thursday, Sept. 12, DepEd announced that it is conducting an online survey to...
Vice President Sara Duterte named House Speaker Martin Romualdez and House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Ako-Bicol Partylist Rep. Elizaldy Co as the two lawmakers in control of the country’s coffers, claiming as well that they meddled with the Department of Education’s (DepEd) budget for...
The Marcos administration should exhaust all means to improve literacy and education in the country, Senator Loren Legarda said on Sunday, September 8. Legarda issued the call as the Philippines celebrates International Literacy Day. “Without literacy, there is no progress....
Vice President Sara Duterte (Duterte's Facebook page) Members of the “Young Guns” bloc of the House of Representatives are pushing Vice President Sara Duterte to address the issues that plagued the feeding program of the Department of...
The number of teaching, teaching-related and non-teaching personnel in the country's public schools dwindled by 38,463 from 1,016,066 in 2022 to 977,603 in 2023. Despite the reduced number of teaching personnel, the Commission on Audit (COA) said its state auditors recorded an increase in the total...
Officials of the Department of Education(DepEd) are still accountable over how Vice President Sara Duterte utilized the P112-million confidential fund of the agency in 2023, Senate deputy minority leader Risa Hontiveros said on Tuesday, September 3. Hontiveros pointed this out after DepEd...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has called out the Department of Education (DepEd) over its unsettled P12.297 billion notices of disallowances and suspensions, and the "substantial accumulated unliquidated" cash advances of P6.959 billion in 2023. In its 2023 annual audit report, the COA blamed...
Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong (PPAB) Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong is pressing the Department of Education (DepEd) to take immediate action against contractors who failed to fulfill obligations under the agency’s...
Then-Department of Education Secretary and Vice President Sara Duterte presenting her "Isang Kaibigan" book (Duterte's Facebook page) The Department of Education (DepEd) said through an official on Monday, Sept. 2, that it had nothing to do...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged the Department of Education (DepEd) over lapses in its P5.69 billion School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) in 2023, with reports of delays and non-delivery of nutritious food products (NFPs) and pasteurized milk in several regions. Worse,...
