THE Department of Education (DepEd) yesterday said declared the implementation of limited face-to-face classes in the country a success and said it will be expanded due to the government’s strong support and trust.
Acting Presidential spokesperson Karlo Nograles on Monday night announced Malacañang’s approval of a recommendation made by DepEd for the expansion of face-to-face classes in alert level 2 areas in the country.
“DepEd is elated that the Office of the President expressed its strong support and trust in the expansion of the limited face-to-face classes. We believe this high confidence from President Duterte and our stakeholders was due to the successful pilot implementation of face-to-face classes,” Education Secretary Leonor Briones said in a statement.
Briones said the agency is also grateful to the Department of Health (DOH) and the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) for assisting the department in developing a responsive operational guideline on face-to-face learning delivery and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for encouraging local government units (LGUs) to support the pilot implementation.
