To help address the concerns of teachers when it comes to their workload, the Department of Education (DepEd) is planning to launch a “balancing tool” that would help determine which tasks are directly related to teaching and other assignments. (NOEL PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN) In a joint...
The Department of Education (DepEd) was urged to rechannel the P150-million “confidential funds” it has requested to address the shortage in basic education resources, especially in public schools. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “At a time of a grave learning crisis, apportioning such amount...
Teachers' group mourned the death of their fellow teacher in Bicol who reportedly passed away after attending teaching duties despite not feeling well. DepEd / MANILA BULLETIN The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) - Bicol and the Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC), in separate statements,...
Public school teachers, students, and parent groups trooped to Congress on Wednesday, Sept. 14, to call for the doubling of the education budget for 2023. Members of Alliance of Concerned Teachers stage a picket protest in front of the House of Representatives in Quezon City on Wednesday, Sept. 14,...
A bill has been at the House of Representatives anew seeking the revival of the mandatory Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) for students. (FILE PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN) Negros Oriental 3rd District Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. is making a push for the return of the ROTC program for students in the...
Even Davao City doesn't have the means to solve its local problem on classroom shortage. Vice President Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Vice President and concurrent Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sara Duterte made this admission Wednesday, Sept. 14 as she tried to describe...
The Department of Education (DepEd) under Vice President Sara Duterte is eyeing a "new curriculum" for the controversial K to 12 program for basic education. Vice President Sara Duterte) This was revealed by Duterte, the concurrent education secretary, during the House Committee on Appropriations'...
As a form of courtesy to Vice President Sara Duterte, the House leadership limited on Wednesday, Sept. 14 the number of interpellators on the Department of Education's (DepEd) proposed 2023 budget to just a single digit. Vice President and DepEd Secretary Sara Duterte (Screenshot from Zoom) Because...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez on Wednesday, Sept. 14, expressed support for Vice President Sara Duterte, pledging that the lawmakers will find ways to fund the projects and programs of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education (DepEd), which she chairs. VP and...
Many have been said about Vice President Sara Duterte, especially about her tough, no-nonsense attitude, but President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. sees another side to her that made him motivated to assign a gigantic task to her: leading an embattled agency that molds the future of Filipino...
A visibly irked Pasig City lone district Rep. Roman Romulo lectured a resource person who cut him mid-sentence during a hearing a committee hearing on the proposed suspension of the implementation of the use of the mother tongue in teaching Filipino children. Dr. Ricardo Nolasco (left) and Pasig...
Elementary and secondary schools in coastal areas are gearing to become more disaster-resilient after a House panel on Tuesday, Sept. 13, unanimously passed a resolution for the master design and architectural plan for schools in areas regularly hit by calamities. (Photo from Dinagat Islands Rep....
