The Department of Education’s (DepEd) decision to adopt Filipino and English as the primary languages of instruction from Kindergarten to Grade 3 starting School Year (SY) 2025–2026 has gained strong support from the Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands (CCPI), the country’s oldest...
The Department of Education (DepEd) has issued a major policy shift on the medium of instruction (MOI) for Kindergarten to Grade 3, officially ending the mandatory use of the Mother Tongue in early-grade instruction nationwide. DepEd Secretary Sonny Angara signed DepEd Order No. 20, series of 2025,...
Quezon City 5th district Rep. PM Vargas (Facebook) Quezon City 5th district Rep. PM Vargas highlighted over the weekend one of his pending bill in the 19th Congress that promotes the use of local dialects in public service communications...
Describing it as a "significant setback" in the pursuit of quality education, teachers' groups lamented the passage of a law that discontinues the use of the mother tongue in Kindergarten to Grade 3. (DepEd file photo) In separate statements, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines and...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Contributed photo) Makabayan solon ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro is up in arms over the lapsing into of Republic Act (RA) No.12027, which discontinues the mandatory use of the Mother...
Republic Act (RA) No. 12027, which aims to discontinue the use of the Mother Tongue as the medium of instruction for Kindergarten to Grade 3 and make its implementation optional for monolingual classes, has lapsed into law following the non-action of President Marcos. File photo The measure lapsed...
(Unsplash) Senator Sherwin Gatchalian insists that discontinuing mother tongue use as medium of instruction from Kindergarten to Grade 3 will serve the best interest of the country’s learners and teachers. In a statement Saturday, Aug. 3,...
Instead of outright suspending the Mother Tongue-Based Multi-Lingual Education (MTB-MLE), a group of teachers called on the government to improve its implementation. (DepEd file photo) “Children, especially those in the early grades of education learn better if the language used in teaching is the...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (Senate PRIB) Citing the lack of studies on the use of mother tongue-based education in a multilingual setting prior to the policy’s implementation, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian described the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) in the Philippines as an...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (Senate PRIB) Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is seeking a national impact evaluation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE), 10 years after the K to 12 Law mandated the implementation of the policy. Gatchalian lamented that there has been no national...
PAGBABAGO The issue is whether to accept the proposal of the Department of Education which is to abandon the teaching of MTB-MLE or the Mother Tongue in Grades 1-3 and to merely adopt it as a medium of instruction. Or to continue with both as proposed by E-Net, a Civil Society Network for Education...
With 240 affirmative votes, the House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading the bill seeking to suspend the implementation of mother tongue or first language as the medium of instruction for pupils in kindergarten to Grade 3. (Erika Fletcher/ Unsplash) Passed during plenary...
