Share ko lang, kasi feeling ko important tong good news na to eh.

Sabi kasi sa news, 10 million copies of textbooks, out of 35 million, have already been distributed by the Department of Education (DepEd) in 19,000 public elementary and secondary schools nationwide, easing the textbook backlog.

Because of this, we're expecting a textbook-pupil ratio of 1:1 to 1:4 in all subjects and grade/year levels, except Grade 3, Year III and Year IV instead of the past ratio of 1:4 to 1:8 for the core subjects of English, Science, Math, and Filipino in priority Grades 1-4 and Years I-II.

This development wouldn't have been possible without the cooperation among DepEd, NAMFREL and other non-governmental organizations that helped monitor the delivery of textbooks. I'd say: Kudos to them!

buti naman. lets continue to make progress. ..

that's great news. i hope they can keep it up.

that's so good to hear! i wonder if they'll ever release the findings of the implementation of RBEC soon.

uy! sana tuluy-tuloy na yan!

yeah, deped is very corrupt coz it is one of the agencies w/ the biggest budget. it's a good thing under this admin, they slowed down corruption a bit. sec. roco and his team did a fine job. it's just so sad good ppl arent able to work long enough if they do a good job.

actually, it is a sign that ppl are doing a good job by the number of protests w/in the agency or dept (eg... BF in DPWH, Banez in BIR, Nanagas in SSS, Willy Wong "in the navy"). meron naman pa rin matino.

IMHO, angie reyes also.

Yes, DepEd is actually improving and that won't be possible if it weren't for the fact that the management itself is helping itself be cleansed of corruption little by little. Secretary Roco may no longer be around to do that but I can fairly say Secretary De Jesus and the undersecretaries are making steady progress.

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you kinda missed the fine point that whatever strides the department has achieved credit must be due to its present head, which has not received a complaint similar to Roco's which is now pending before the ombudsman.

the said complaint was lodged by DECS employees themselves.

sana tuloy-tuloy na ito

saan ba napunta ang biggest budget, sa military o sa education?

Contrary to popular belief, the bulk of this year's budget goes to education --- and that includes the budget for DepEd and State Colleges and Universities.

Contrary to popular belief, the bulk of this year's budget goes to education --- and that includes the budget for DepEd and State Colleges and Universities.

hey, bakit ganun ang DepEd? Huli na kung magdeclare ng walang pasok in certain schools? nakakadepress naman yun. kung kelan malakas ang bagyo, may pasok tayo. kung walang bagyo saka walang pasok. labo naman o...

Thank God no more transmutation in the public schools! Sana sumunod ang private schools. Nung nasa High School pa ako second year or third year tinanggal ang transmutation. Shit sa hirap kumuha ng maganding score pero ok lang. I have always thought that transmutation somehow "mutates" grades into some hybrid figure that is so far away as a numerative indication of school performance. Ewan kung binalik ng transmutation sa grading system natin, pero sa totoo lang mas ok kung wala siya. Go figure, to pass you need to get a numerical grade of 75 out of 100, 75%. Pero kapag sa transmutation, you can get 50 (or in some schools 60) out of 100 and STILL GET 75% EQUIVALENT thanks to transmutation. 68 to 70 out of 100 I think is about 80 - 82%. Even the most dimwitted idiot will never be convinced that 50 or 60 equals 75% of 100.

Ang sabi kasi ng mga "professional educators" at "education managers" we need transmutation as a statistical tool to "process" raw scores. Its the classic "validation" of raw data, parang sa mga thesis. Sa totoo lang, this is such a f---ing load of horse----. Why do you need this at all? If you shoot 10 freethrows and make only 5, you shot 50% on those freethrows. If you get 10 pitches and hit 5 of those pitches, you batted 50%. If you take a 10-item test, get 5 items correct, you score 5 out of 10 or 50%, EXCEPT when you transmute, then you get 75% out of 10 total. WHAT THE F--- IS THAT ALL ABOUT!?

We're abetting incompetence with this system! Tapos magtataka tayo na public school kids can't write a simple grammatically correct sentence in English to save their lives? Or do simple long division? Tapos magi-insist tayo na mag-college pang mga ito? Utang na loob naman! I handle mostly public school kids now that I'm an administrator for a Nursing college, and let me tell you, these kids are so f---ed I shudder at the thought of them being able to take instructions from an English-speaking doctor or Nursing supervisor abroad.

Getting rid of transmutation and making these kids undergo a bridging program before high school is an idea long overdue.

good news nga yan. me pinatutungahan na rin ang pagbabayad natin ng buwis. at kahit paano, mas magiging madali ang pag aaral ng mga estudyante. sana, magtuloy tuloy pa. sa tinagal tagal ng panahon, ngayon lang yata nangyari na ganitong kalaking budget ang inallot para sa mga textbooks

balita ko nga rin, me pinondohan ding programang pang edukasyon na tinatawag na SAFE 4 SR at Iskolar sa bawat mahirap na pamilya.

nalaman ko lang ito, sa kapitbahay namin. nag-aaral ang anak nya sa UST. well, di ko naman ka-close yung tao. just heard it from my mom. nakapagloan daw ng pera para sa tuition fee nya. babayaran pa raw after 2 years na makagraduate ito, then payable in 10 years.

parang study now pay later yun. we can either loan in the amount of P8,000.00 (payable in 10 years) or P4,000.00 (payable in 5 years). magpunta lang daw sa registrar's office of sa student affairs office. pwede mag avail nito ang mga 3rd - 5th year students from CHED-Accredited Schools.

yung Iskolar sa bawat mahirap na pamilya, pumipili mula sa pinakamahihirap na pamilya na miyembro ng Greater Medicare para sa masa na meron ng Philhealth Card. Isa lang sa bawat pamilya. nung nakaraang Easter Sunday lang ito nilaunch. P20,000.00 ang binibigay sa bawat iskolar. At ito ay good for 2-year-course lang sa college at vocational course sa TESDA. kahit paano naman siguro ay makakatulong ito sa kanila. 400,000 na katao na ang nakapag avail nito.

Ang masasabi ko lang sa mga scholarship na galing Malacanang, hari nawa totoo hanggang katapusan. Too damn many horror stories already about how these so-called "scholarships para sa masa" are really nothing more than political gimmicks that fade out after a year or so, bitin na ngang mga scholars, binulsa pa ang balanse ng mga put------ na mga taga-Dep Ed o CHEd. Socialized scholarships are yet another good idea too often going wrong because there are no safety nets i.e. imbis na ilagay kunwari sa isang escrow account o special trust fund ang pondo na pang-aaral ng mga qualified scholars, funds are part and parcel of the budget of Dep Ed, or CHEd, or the State Universities, na napakahirap i-audit, at accessed ng kung sinong opisyal lang. Kahit COA kung minsan kasabwat, hindi tuloy alam ng taongbayan kung saan napunta ang perang buwis na siempre pinampondo sa mga ganitong uri ng scholarship.

the best thing to do if we have any doubts is to investigate. enough with the hearsays. regarding safe 4 sr, we can either check it with CHED, Youth Affairs Office under the Office of the President (sorry, i i don't recall the complete name of this office), CHED-Accredited Colleges/Universities (registrar's office or student affairs office). "iskolar sa bawat mahirap" not " scholar para sa masa" are selected from the poorest of the poor members of the Greater Medicare para sa masa Philhealth.

Education still gets the biggest share of the national budget in accordance with law. The military comes in second. In reality however, the biggest chunk of the budget goes to servicing the outstanding foreign debts of the country. Local debts are rather easier to deal with, but we can't afford to be messing around with international creditors. The budget we read about in the papers passed by Congress every year as the General Appropriations Act is actually the budget for the country's needs "minus" the amount already allocated for foreign debt. So when we read that Dep Ed got say P10 billion out of a P100 billion national budget, that actually means two things: 1) The "real" budget was probably about twice more than that figure, say P200 - 220 billion. 2) The P100 + billion was already automatically given to debt servicing. So while it looks like education took a good chunk of the budget, the real money was spent on debts.