All classes in Pasay City suspended

Classes in public schools on all levels have been suspended in Pasay City, the Department of Education announced Thursday.

Classes in public schools on all levels have been suspended in Pasay City, the Department of Education announced Thursday.

A different kind of high school, focusing on agriculture and fisheries-related lessons, could soon rise in the country’s rural areas, on the guiding principle that not all students’ needs are the same.

The Department of Education said it has allotted P100 million this year to better prepare public schools to accommodate pupils from the country’s indigenous people.

A legislator on Tuesday urged the Department of Education to ensure the safety of students in a quake-hit North Cotabato town before deciding to open classes there.
The waterlogged Don Isabelo Antonio Primary School in the coastal village of Taliptip here will not be ready when classes open tomorrow.
Negros Occidental public schools have enough teachers but lack classrooms while Eastern Visayas still lacks over 1,000 teachers.
The Department of Education (DepEd) in Central Visayas is expecting an increase in the number of students in public schools as over 100 private schools in preschool, elementary and secondary levels are implementing tuition and miscellaneous fee increases.

The National Capital Region Police Office said Monday that it will deploy 10,000 police officers as part of its security preparations for the opening of classes next week.
We started our Kariton Program in Novaliches, Quezon City. The class is being held once a week in a vacant lot. After a few weeks, we noticed a big improvement among our street children beneficiaries.

It breaks the heart to hear that as many as 562,262 pupils in kindergarten and elementary levels enrolled in public schools have been classified as “severely wasted” or undernourished.
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) donated P2 billion to the Department of Education (DepEd) to construct up to 2,000 classrooms in public schools by the end of 2014.
A Quezon City councilor wants a 2010 directive of the Department of Education (DepEd) to also apply to private schools and discourage them from giving homework to elementary pupils on weekends, saying the two-day period should be used for more ‘’bonding time” between children and their families.
BACOLOD CITY—A Math teacher will spend six years in jail after a Regional Trial Court (RTC) found her guilty of child abuse for maltreating a nine-year-old pupil. The teacher, who had served a six-month suspension, is also facing a separate administrative complaint filed by the pupil’s parents at the Department of Education for grave [...]