The Commission on Elections will need an additional P5 billion if the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections will not push through his year, Comelec Chairman George Garcia told senators yesterday.
The Department of Education has enlisted the active participation of 17 agencies for the agency’s 2022 Oplan Balik Eskwela program to prepare for the opening of classes in public schools nationwide on Monday.
The Department of Education has reiterated its commitment to address “learning losses” of Filipino students following school closures and the shift to distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social Welfare and Development Secretary Erwin Tulfo has given assurance that the poorest families now receiving conditional cash grants as beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program would not be taken out of the program, even as he announced that the department is undergoing a thorough evaluation and cleansing of the 4Ps roll of beneficiaries.