March 30, 2023 – I am glad that France Castro confirmed that ACT Teachers is, without a doubt, a fake representative of learners, educators, and other members of the education sector in Congress with her continued refusal to publicly and explicitly condemn the New People’s Army’s violence in Masbate. That ACT Teachers is a sham continue reading : EDUCATION SECRETARY SARA DUTERTE’S REPLY TO FRANCE CASTRO
March 29, 2023 – The Department of Education is not blind to the problems besetting the education system. We have already laid down solutions to these problems during the Basic Education Report delivered on January 30, 2023. The hiring of teachers, the hiring of administrative staff, as well as the construction of new classrooms and continue reading : STATEMENT BY DEPED SECRETARY SARA DUTERTE ON ACT TEACHERS PARTYLIST
March 27, 2023 – The suggestions of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) for the Department of Education to hire 30,000 public teachers and allocate a budget of P100 billion per year for classrooms are obviously deceptive maneuvers deliberately designed to counter the Marcos administration’s solution to the problems hounding the education sector. The call continue reading : On the hiring of 30k public school teachers
March 23, 2023 – The Department of Education (DepEd) vehemently condemns the alarming rate of communist rebel activities in Masbate, causing undue learning disruption in the province. These acts of terrorism perpetrated by the New People’s Army (NPA) have caused trauma to learners and school personnel who witnessed the senseless violence. DepEd remains defiant against continue reading : On the Masbate terrorist encounters
March 6, 2023 – May I reiterate — the transport strike is a painful interference in our efforts to address the learning gaps and other woes in our education system. We oppose it because it is problematic, it will hurt our learners, and the inconvenience that it may cause comes with an enormous price continue reading : A REPLY BY DEPED SECRETARY SARA DUTERTE TO ACT AND PISTON
4 March 2023 – Learning recovery is foremost on the agenda of the Department of Education today. It does not include the pointless weeklong transport strike supported by ACT. The transport strike is a painful interference in our efforts to provide solutions to the problems besetting our education system and will only exacerbate the learning continue reading : STATEMENT BY DEPED SECRETARY SARA DUTERTE ON ACT TEACHERS SUPPORT TO THE TRANSPORT STRIKE
February 20, 2023 – The Department of Education (DepEd) is taking measures to ensure that values of integrity, transparency, and accountability are being upheld by our officials, teachers, and non-teaching personnel. In the past months, we have immediately acted on several legal cases filed against alleged erring public officials, personnel, and service providers of DepEd. continue reading : Updates on DepEd Legal Actions
December 7, 2022 – The Department of Education (DepEd) is grateful for the trust and support of the Filipino people. The reopening of schools and the resumption of in-person classes — geared at ensuring that we effectively address the enormous learning losses brought by the Covid 19 pandemic — would have been harder without your continue reading : On the OCTA Survey Results
November 14, 2022 – The Department of Education (DepEd) expresses its gratitude to the Senate of the Philippines for approving the budget of the Department and its attached agencies for the Fiscal Year 2023. Amidst the various challenges confronting basic education, amplified even further by the Covid-19 pandemic, learning recovery truly requires a whole-of-nation-approach. continue reading : On the Senate approval of DepEd budget for FY 2023
October 28, 2022 – The Department of Education (DepEd) aims to not only bring learners back to school, but also institute measures to maximize learning recovery. We would like to express our utmost appreciation and gratitude to our Local Government Units (LGUs), partner agencies from the National Government , Non- Government Organizations (NGO), and our continue reading : On the unnecessary cancellation of classes and the use of schools as billeting areas