ILOILO CITY — The Department of Education assured zero tolerance on illegal drugs after suspected shabu was recently discovered from a 16-year-old high school student during a random inspection in Janiuay, Iloilo. “The DepEd reaffirms its zero tolerance policy towards illegal drugs in our...
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 Department of Education (DepEd) formally kicked off this year’s National Teachers’ Month (NTM) celebration on Thursday, Sept. 5. (DepEd / MB Visual Content Group) The month-long celebration, from Sept. 5 to Oct. 5, aims to honor and recognize the contributions of teachers nationwide....
To honor and recognize the invaluable contributions of teachers across the country, the Department of Education (DepEd) will officially kick off this year’s National Teachers’ Month (NTM) celebration on Sept. 5 in Ilocos Sur. Filipino teachers (DepEd file photo) In a memorandum dated Aug....
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...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Majority and minority members of the House of Representatives are on the same page--Vice President Sara Duterte should drop her "squid tactics" and answer the damning Commission on Audit...
La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V (left), Zambales 1st district Rep. Jay Khonghun (Facebook) Ranking congressmen believe that serving spoiled milk or "nutribuns" to schoolchildren--particularly during the Department of Education’s...
Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas (Facebook) Makabayan solon Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas has slammed the Department of Education (DepEd) for purportedly distributing spoiled food under its P5.69-billion School-Based Feeding Program...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday, Sept. 3, confirmed that public school teachers and non-teaching personnel will soon receive salary increase differentials. (ARNOLD QUIZOL / MANILA BULLETIN) Issuing a statement, DepEd said it has started processing salary increase differentials...
Teachers expressed outrage on Tuesday, Sept. 3, over allegations of budget misuse under Vice President Sara Duterte’s leadership at the Department of Education (DepEd). Vice President and former DepEd Secretary Sara Duterte (MB Visual Content Group) The allegations emerged following a House...
DepEd Secretary Sonny Angara (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) Ranking congressmen praised Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sonny Angara for his pleasant behavior and willingness to cooperate with them during the agency’s...
