Senators want limited face-to-face classes to start
March 1, 2021 | 8:09 pm
The senators said the prolonged school closures have affected students especially those from poor families.
They said the trial run in 1,065 schools in low-risk areas identified by the Education department should start “to avert a prolonged learning loss and minimize other potentially profound adverse social, developmental and health costs.”
Senators Sherwin T. Gatchalian, Maria Lourdes Nancy S. Binay, Francis N. Pangilinan, Grace Poe-Llamanzares, Pia S. Cayetano, Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva and Juan Edgardo M. Angara signed the resolution.
They said 433 municipalities and three cities have no active coronavirus cases as of Feb. 9. Feeding programs should also be resumed and ease the effects of the pandemic on poor students and their families, they added.