LIST: 90 schools participating in pilot face-to-face classes starting Nov 15

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LIST: 30 schools participating in pilot face-to-face classes starting Nov 15

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(Editor’s Note: This article was updated October 25, 2021, to reflect the additional schools set to participate in the government’s pilot run of in-person classes, as announced by the Department of Education.)

MANILA, Philippines — Some 90 schools will now participate in the pilot limited face-to-face classes starting November 15, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones announced Monday.

The DepEd chief reported the increased number of school participants during a press briefing, noting that no schools from Metro Manila will join in the pilot run of limited in-person classes as of October 25.

“So now, ‘yung objective natin na maka-reach ng 100 public schools, 90 na ang ating na-identify. Ito sa opinion, hindi lang ng DepEd kundi pati ng DOH [Department of Health],” Briones said.

READ: DepEd: 90 schools joining pilot run of limited in-person classes as of Oct 25

On October 19, DepEd Assistant Secretary Malcolm Garma said the DOH’s epidemiology bureau so far evaluated 638 schools for the pilot in-person classes and approved 59 after assessment, but only 30 of them will proceed because some local government units (LGUs) and parents changed their minds about it.

“Ang makakapagpatuloy lang ay ‘yung 30. Kasi nga ‘yung iba ayaw na ng LGU, ‘yung iba umatras na sila, ‘yung iba ayaw nung magulang, o ‘yung iba tumaas yung cases,” Garma explained during a press briefing.

(Only 30 schools would proceed because some LGUs backed out, the parents also backed out, and in other areas cases increased.)

But the list has increased since last week.

As of October 25, the following schools in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao will participate in the pilot face-to-face classes beginning mid-November this year:

Pangasinan and Ilocos Norte (Region 1)

Zambales (Region 3)

Quezon (Region 4-A)

Masbate (Region 5)

Antique (Region 6)

Cebu (Region 7)

Leyte and Western Samar (Region 8)

Zamboanga Sibugay (Region 9)

Zamboanga del Sur (Region 9)

Lanao del Norte (Region 10)

Davao Del Sur and Compostela Valley (Region 11)

North Cotabato and South Cotabato (Region 12)

Surigao Del Norte (Region 13)

The DepEd is targeting 100 public schools and 20 private schools for the pilot face-to-face classes in keeping with its agreement with the DOH. Garma said this list may increase as they are still in the process of validating other pending applications for the conduct of limited in-person classes, which run from November 15 until January 2022.

“There is a possibility that we can reach 100 or less. However, with the one hundred as a pilot, we will now venture into the expansion program, based on the study,” he added.

“The pilot implementation only refers to the study, the period of the study, which is two months, or it can be less,” he added.

Garma said approved schools for face-to-face classes would still employ blended learning until the end of School Year 2021-2022.

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