April 18, 2023 – The Department of Education (DepEd) is in coordination with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Harmonization of National Government Performance Monitoring, Information and Reporting Systems (AO25 Secretariat) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) on the Performance-Based Bonus (PBB) of its personnel. The Department has already completed the submission to continue reading : On the release of the 2021 Performance-Based Bonus
March 31, 2023 – I have never claimed to be anything — but for the past eight months, the Department of Education has made strides in addressing the problems burdening our learners and education personnel. Allow me to educate ACT Teachers because the group is obviously uninformed, if not deliberately paying no attention to the continue reading : REPLY BY DEPED SECRETARY TO ACT TEACHERS REP. FRANCE CASTRO
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