DepEd-CAR set for school opening, K-12 program

 BAGUIO CITY– The Department of Education -Cordillera Administrative Region is set to launch Brigada Eskwela for school year 2014-2015 tomorrow (May 19).

DepEd regional director Ellen Donato, DepEd said Brigada Eskwela  also known as National Schools Maintenance Week,  is a school maintenance program enjoining all education stakeholders to contribute their time, effort and resources in ensuring that public school facilities are ready for June 2 school opening.

 Now on its 11th year, the theme “Making our schools safer for our children,” focuses on making schools disaster-ready, and on developing disaster-resilient school communities, Donato said. 

 “In the region, we want to reach out to the farthest division so the launching will be held on May 19 in Kabugao, Apayao, and the closing program will be on May 26 also in Kabugao, Apayao.”

 Donato said this May there is full blast of training of all teachers in grades 3 and 9 for the K-12 program in time for the opening of classes this coming June 2.

She said generally, all public schools will formally open on June 2. However, in as much as the Constitution provides that opening of classes can happen prior to August 31, some private schools have opted to open after June 2.

Small World Christian School Foundation will open in July, Saint Louis University across all levels will be opening in August.    

 Pines City Colleges is closing its private schools in basic education. It’s  a total closure, their reasons are valid and accordingly they already informed the parents.

There are about 200 students from kinder to high school will be affected, she added. There are about 350,000 students with about 12,600 teachers going back to school in June 2. – Maria April Cruz