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We echo their calls to level the playing field.

Moreover, the three billion peso DepEd voucher cut may reduce student beneficiaries, according to Secretary Juan Edgardo Angara.

ENet stressed that last-mile schools, CLCs, and inclusive learning resource centers, ILRCs, must have clear, dedicated, and trackable budget lines.

They raised concerns over gaps in learner protection, mental health, and learning recovery in the proposed budget.

This is why, one of the problems in the Philippines, they don't have proper media training.

It's ironic that they don't have media workshops in schools under DepEd.

But because of the shutdown of ABS-CBN at the time of Digong, the prominence of vloggers and internet in most places replaced the mainstream media, radio, newspaper, and TV with social media and YouTube.

So, the result is that you are reckless content creators.

very difficult for Marcos Jr. to carry the banner of anti-corruption because he cannot escape from the effects of the 2025 budget because he approved it.

he approved the transfer of funds from DepEd, from field health to the unprogrammed appropriation.

I mean, he could have stopped that.

And of course, the son also had the biggest allocation or very big allocation.

VP Sarah's confidential fund use pattern began in Davao.

House prosecutors on Friday alleged that Vice President Sarah Duterte's system for handling confidential funds followed her from the Davao city government to the office of the Vice President, OVP, and the Department of Education, DepEd.

The prosecution presented its Article I case involving the alleged misuse, misappropriation and irregular liquidation of P612.5 million in confidential funds, P500 million under the OVP and P112.5 million under DepEd.

Former Representative Ace Barber said the prosecution was examining former Davao City officials who later joined Duterte at the OVP and DepEd, including Zuleika Lopez, Lemuel Ortenayo, Gina Acosta, and Sunshine Fajarda.

Acosta, a former Davao City special dispersing officer who later handled OVP funds, testified that she turned over confidential fund cash to security personnel.

She also said she handed P500 million in OVP cash to Colonel Raymond Dante Lachica on Duterte's instruction.

The prosecution said a similar turnover occurred in the DepEd transactions, where Fajarda encashed P112.5 million and the funds were turned over to Colonel Dennis Nolasco.

Prosecutors also cited Philippine Statistics Authority findings involving 2,669 names in the OVP and DepEd confidential fund records, including 1,685 with no matching birth, marriage or death records.

VP Sarah's confidential fund use pattern began in Davao.

House prosecutors on Friday alleged that Vice President Sarah Duterte's system for handling confidential funds followed her from the Davao city government to the office of the Vice President, OVP, and the Department of Education, DepEd.

The prosecution presented its Article I case involving the alleged misuse, misappropriation and irregular liquidation of P612.5 million in confidential funds, P500 million under the OVP and P112.5 million under DepEd.

Former Representative Ace Barber said the prosecution was examining former Davao City officials who later joined Duterte at the OVP and DepEd, including Zuleika Lopez, Lemuel Ortenayo, Gina Acosta, and Sunshine Fajarda.

Acosta, a former Davao City special dispersing officer who later handled OVP funds, testified that she turned over confidential fund cash to security personnel.

She also said she handed P500 million in OVP cash to Colonel Raymond Dante Lachica on Duterte's instruction.

The prosecution said a similar turnover occurred in the DepEd transactions, where Fajarda encashed P112.5 million and the funds were turned over to Colonel Dennis Nolasco.

Prosecutors also cited Philippine Statistics Authority findings involving 2,669 names in the OVP and DepEd confidential fund records, including 1,685 with no matching birth, marriage or death records.

Some recipients of Vice President Sarah Duterte's confidential funds match the names of people who had already died and children, including a two-month-old baby who died in 1965, an official of the Philippine Statistics Authority, PSA, testified Monday.

During the 22nd day of Duterte's impeachment trial, PSA Assistant National Statistician Mertz Grande confirmed that the baby's name appeared on acknowledgement receipts submitted by the Office of the Vice President, OVP, and the Department of Education, DepEd, to justify the liquidation of P612.5 million in confidential funds spent between 2022 and 2023.

She said the PSA also verified that the database yielded a single match entry, a unique, definitive record, for Marlon Sunga, who died at two months old on November 2, 1965.

The PSA official said that Sunga has been dead for about 57 years when an acknowledgement receipt in her name appeared in 2023.

Grande testified that there are 20 minors in the OVP's list and five minors in the DepEd's list, based on their birth certificates.

This, after private prosecutor May Divina Gracia presented the acknowledgement receipt of Miko Alcazar and Beatrice Cuenca for P400,000 each.

Grande said Alcazar and Cuenca were both born in 2022.

But you don't know whether that was also him or not, Escudero said.

Some recipients of Vice President Sarah Duterte's confidential funds matched the names of people who had already died and children, including a two-month-old baby who died in 1965, an official of the Philippine Statistics Authority, PSA, testified Monday.

During the 22nd day of Duterte's impeachment trial, PSA Assistant National Statistician Mertz Grande confirmed that the baby's name appeared on acknowledgement receipts submitted by the Office of the Vice President, OVP, and the Department of Education, DepEd, to justify the liquidation of P612.5 million in confidential funds spent between 2022 and 2023.

She said the PSA also verified that the database yielded a single match entry, a unique, definitive record, for Marlon Sunga, who died at two months old on November 2, 1965.

The PSA official said that Sunga has been dead for about 57 years when an acknowledgement receipt in her name appeared in 2023.

At least 93,000 public school personnel are set to receive salary adjustments following the release of 8.68 billion pesos by the Department of Budget and Management.

The Department of Education said Friday, September 4th.

DepEd said the funding will cover salary differentials for 93,344 reclassified teaching and school head positions nationwide under the expanded career progression system for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

Education Secretary Juan Edgardo Sunny Angara said the funding supports President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s directive to expand career opportunities for teachers and ensure that professional advancement comes with appropriate compensation.

He said DepEd wants teachers to see a long-term career path in the classroom.

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