Latest in DepEdThe Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) will serve as the coordinating body for a whole-of-nation approach to supporting the incoming elected Bangsamoro government, bringing together the DSWD, DOH, DOST, DOLE, DepEd, AFP, PNP, Coast Guard, and civil…
Budget Secretary Kim Robert De Leon is moving to eliminate one of the most persistent sources of delay in government salary processing, saying agencies will no longer need to formally request salary deficiency funding from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) once they update their…
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has approved the release of an additional ₱6 billion this year to clear the accumulated backlog of salary differentials owed to the 80,000 public school teachers who were promoted under the Expanded Career Progression program but had not yet received…
The Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget sets aside ₱10.3 billion to ensure that every public school teacher in the country receives a ₱10,000 annual teaching allowance, the former chalk allowance, renamed to reflect the reality that most classrooms no longer use chalk, Budget…
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has set aside ₱12 billion in the proposed 2027 national budget for the Expanded Career Progression program for public school teachers, double the ₱6 billion allocated this year. fulfilling President Marcos’ directive that no teacher should retire at…
The Department of Health (DOH) will use telemedicine and roving health teams rather than fixed clinics to bring healthcare to geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, acknowledging that brick-and-mortar health facilities are not always feasible in island communities and remote barangays…
Newly appointed Health Secretary Edwin Mercado revealed Saturday that the Department of Health (DOH) and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) will no longer operate as two separate agencies but will merge their roadmaps under a single Unified National Agenda for Health, or UNA…
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed that every public school student must have their own personal textbook to write on and keep, just like in private schools—a policy that ends decades of shared, untouchable textbooks in Philippine public education, Education Secretary Sonny Angara said…
Some 2.2 million students are now benefiting from the Government Assistance and Subsidy for Private Education (GASTPE) program, which allows public school students to transfer to private schools with their tuition funded by the government, Education Secretary Sonny Angara said Saturday. Angara…
The Department of Education (DepEd) is giving classroom construction funds directly to local government units, civil society organizations, and the private sector to implement for the first time in its history, ending the longstanding practice of routing all construction through the Department of…
The Marcos administration has raised virtually every teacher allowance and benefit to historic highs, with the most dramatic increase being the chalk or teaching allowance, which jumped ₱10,000, Teacher Mariane Luchavez confirmed Saturday. Luchavez made the disclosure in an interview on DZRH News…
For the first time in Philippine history, the government is building a Central Kitchen in every school division nationwide—funded under a ₱1 billion capital outlay as part of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) ₱25 billion school feeding program—with each kitchen designed to serve up to 10…
The Philippines ranked last in the world in the 2019 Programme for International Student Assessment and third from last in 2022, prompting President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to direct the Department of Education (DepEd) to restore the country’s standing as one of Asia’s top education performers…
The Philippines has exceeded 4% of gross domestic product in education spending for the first time, entering the 4 to 6% range recommended by UNESCO as the best practice for a developing country, Education Undersecretary Edson Byron Sy said Saturday. Sy made the disclosure in an interview on DZRH…
For 27 years, Teacher Mariane Luchavez stayed at Teacher I—not because she lacked the talent or the will to advance, but because life demanded she choose between her own professional growth and the future of her three children. Luchavez, a public school teacher in Valenzuela City who has been…
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