The End-of-School-Year (EOSY) Rites for the current school year will be held from July 10 to 14, the Department of Education (DepEd) announced. Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte signed DepEd Order No. 009 series of 2023 entitled “An Order Updating the Multi-Year Implementing...
The Office of the Vice President (OVP) has distributed relief goods to residents of Verde Island, who were affected by the Oriental Mindoro oil spill. In a statement, the OVP-Disaster Operations Center (OVP-DOC), with the help of the Batangas Provincial Government, Batangas Vice Governor’s Office,...
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT),which is linked to the militant Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives, criticized and taunted Vice President Sara Duterte in a thorny statement Thursday, March 30, going as far to call her a "fake" education leader. "The [ACT] Philippines, with its...
To ensure that they are not “burdened” with non-work related matters, the Department of Education (DepEd) is not allowing teachers to engage in community service or extracurricular activities during school hours. Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte issued DepEd Order No. 008...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Thursday, March 30, rejected the suggestion of Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Party-list Rep. France Castro to resume peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), the...
Have an open mind and drop your habit of red-tagging. Makabayan solon ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro directed this advice to the Department of Education (DepEd) amid what she described as serious, persisting problems in the education sector. "Our call for hiring 30,000 new teachers and...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte did not mince words when she hit back at the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Party-list for its suggestion to hire 30,000 public school teachers and construct new classrooms to address the education crisis in the country. In a statement,...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez has two wishes for former president Rodrigo Duterte on the latter’s 78th birthday. Romualdez wrote these wishes on his Facebook on Tuesday, March 28 for everyone to see. "Happy 78th Birthday, Former President Rodrigo Duterte!" wrote the Leyte 1st district...
A group pushing for the hiring of more teachers and the construction of more classrooms expressed disappointment with the response given by the Department of Education (DepEd) to its demands. In a statement issued Monday, March 27, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines reiterated that...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Monday, March 27, claimed that the recent call of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) for the Department of Education (DepEd) to hire 30,000 additional teachers per year to resolve the problematic teacher-student ratio was just a tactic to...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte likened the New People’s Army (NPA) to pests after rebel attacks led to the suspension of face-to-face classes in Masbate. Her comments came during her speech for the Philippine Military Academy’s (PMA) "Bagong Anyo ng Buhay (Banyuhay)" Class...
Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday vowed to work with the country's military in increasing its capability as she took an oath as honorary member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). Now an adopted member of PMA's Bagong Anyo ng Buhay (Banyuhay) Class of 2002, Duterte paid tribute to the...
