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Schedule of early registration in Taal-affected schools to be 'flexible' - DepEd
Philippines
Schedule of early registration in Taal-affected schools to be 'flexible' - DepEd
Schedule of early registration in Taal-affected schools to be 'flexible' - DepEd
Published Jan 22, 2020 12:00 am
By Merlina Hernando-Malipot
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday confirmed that the schedule of early registration in schools affected by Taal’s unrest will be flexible and will depend on the readiness of the school, learners, and personnel.
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DepEd Planning Division Roger Masapol, in a statement issued to Manila Bulletin, said that the early registration in schools affected by the Taal crisis will push through but certain adjustments have to be made.
“Early registration schedule for Taal-affected areas will be flexible,” Masapol said. “Schools in the area may start on schedule but may also deviate depending on their readiness,” he added.
Masapol said early registration is compulsory for public schools and optional for private schools. “Private schools are also encouraged to do early registration,” he said.
He said that for Taal-affected areas, “all requirements are waived subject for submission once available.”
DepEd urged learners, particularly those who intend to transfer schools after being displaced by natural disasters, to participate in the early registration for this coming school year.
DepEd, in a statement, noted that learners who are affected and displaced by natural disasters are among the targets of its month-long early registration for School Year (SY) 2020-2021.
In an effort to ensure that all new entrants for Kindergarten, Grades 1, 7, and 11 learners in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide are listed, the DepEd will open its early registration desks from February 1 to March 6, 2020.
DepEd reminded learners, parents, guardians, and other stakeholders that the early registration policy prescribes that registrants must satisfy eligibility rules based on their grade levels.
Early Registration moved
As the Chinese New Year falls on January 25, DepEd moved the opening of its Early Registration for the coming SY.
The original schedule, as stated in DepEd Order No. 3 s. of 2018 or the “Basic Education Enrollment Policy,” should be on the last Saturday of January to the last Friday of February of each year. DepEd, in its earlier social media posts, announced that the pre-registration for SY 2020-2021 will run from January 25 to February 28. Soon after, DepEd issued the updated schedule for the activity.
DepEd noted that only incoming Kindergarten, Grades 1, 7 and 11 are covered by the early registration. All learners in Grades 2 to 6; Grades 8 to 10; and Grade 12 are considered pre-registered.
Aside from displaced learners due to calamities, DepEd’s early registration also seeks to locate, identify, and register out-of-school children and youth in the community who are living with disabilities, living in off-grid/far-flung community; a barangay without a school, or a geographically isolated area; living in an armed conflict area or area with high level of criminality/drug abuse; having chronic illness or nutritional problem/s; victim of child abuse or economic exploitation; stateless/undocumented; in conflict with the law; living on the streets; and no longer in school but interested in going back to school.
For DepEd’s early registration policy, the target registrants are required to submit documents such as the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) or National Statistics Authority (NSO) birth certificate or Local Civil Registrar (LCR) birth certificate, baptismal, or barangay certificate for them to become eligible..
However, based on DepEd Memorandum No. 003, s. 2020 issued by Education Secretary Leonor Briones, all public schools where displaced learners from Region IV-A will seek to be accommodated are “directed to accept these emergency transferees even with the unavailability or insufficiency of the required transfer credentials.”
DepEd’s noted that its early registration policy “upholds the right of all school-aged learners to enroll and be equally provided with quality, accessible, relevant, and liberating basic education.”
Early registration is also in line with DepEd’s “Sulong EduKalidad” campaign which is aimed at addressing the challenge in the quality of basic education. This initiative is in response to the “rapidly changing learning environment of present and future learners and will introduce aggressive reforms to globalize the quality of basic education in the Philippines.”
“We always remind ourselves that our constitutional mandate is to provide every Filipino not only access to education but to basic quality education,” Briones said. “We have realized that we are facing the reality that we still have much to do in responding to the constitutional mandate as far as quality education is concerned,” she added.
(MANILA BULLETIN)
DepEd Planning Division Roger Masapol, in a statement issued to Manila Bulletin, said that the early registration in schools affected by the Taal crisis will push through but certain adjustments have to be made.
“Early registration schedule for Taal-affected areas will be flexible,” Masapol said. “Schools in the area may start on schedule but may also deviate depending on their readiness,” he added.
Masapol said early registration is compulsory for public schools and optional for private schools. “Private schools are also encouraged to do early registration,” he said.
He said that for Taal-affected areas, “all requirements are waived subject for submission once available.”
DepEd urged learners, particularly those who intend to transfer schools after being displaced by natural disasters, to participate in the early registration for this coming school year.
DepEd, in a statement, noted that learners who are affected and displaced by natural disasters are among the targets of its month-long early registration for School Year (SY) 2020-2021.
In an effort to ensure that all new entrants for Kindergarten, Grades 1, 7, and 11 learners in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide are listed, the DepEd will open its early registration desks from February 1 to March 6, 2020.
DepEd reminded learners, parents, guardians, and other stakeholders that the early registration policy prescribes that registrants must satisfy eligibility rules based on their grade levels.
Early Registration moved
As the Chinese New Year falls on January 25, DepEd moved the opening of its Early Registration for the coming SY.
The original schedule, as stated in DepEd Order No. 3 s. of 2018 or the “Basic Education Enrollment Policy,” should be on the last Saturday of January to the last Friday of February of each year. DepEd, in its earlier social media posts, announced that the pre-registration for SY 2020-2021 will run from January 25 to February 28. Soon after, DepEd issued the updated schedule for the activity.
DepEd noted that only incoming Kindergarten, Grades 1, 7 and 11 are covered by the early registration. All learners in Grades 2 to 6; Grades 8 to 10; and Grade 12 are considered pre-registered.
Aside from displaced learners due to calamities, DepEd’s early registration also seeks to locate, identify, and register out-of-school children and youth in the community who are living with disabilities, living in off-grid/far-flung community; a barangay without a school, or a geographically isolated area; living in an armed conflict area or area with high level of criminality/drug abuse; having chronic illness or nutritional problem/s; victim of child abuse or economic exploitation; stateless/undocumented; in conflict with the law; living on the streets; and no longer in school but interested in going back to school.
For DepEd’s early registration policy, the target registrants are required to submit documents such as the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) or National Statistics Authority (NSO) birth certificate or Local Civil Registrar (LCR) birth certificate, baptismal, or barangay certificate for them to become eligible..
However, based on DepEd Memorandum No. 003, s. 2020 issued by Education Secretary Leonor Briones, all public schools where displaced learners from Region IV-A will seek to be accommodated are “directed to accept these emergency transferees even with the unavailability or insufficiency of the required transfer credentials.”
DepEd’s noted that its early registration policy “upholds the right of all school-aged learners to enroll and be equally provided with quality, accessible, relevant, and liberating basic education.”
Early registration is also in line with DepEd’s “Sulong EduKalidad” campaign which is aimed at addressing the challenge in the quality of basic education. This initiative is in response to the “rapidly changing learning environment of present and future learners and will introduce aggressive reforms to globalize the quality of basic education in the Philippines.”
“We always remind ourselves that our constitutional mandate is to provide every Filipino not only access to education but to basic quality education,” Briones said. “We have realized that we are facing the reality that we still have much to do in responding to the constitutional mandate as far as quality education is concerned,” she added.