Groups on Thursday urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to temporarily suspend its order requiring private schools to comply with the readiness assessment checklist for learning delivery modalities in their Learning Continuity Plan (LCP) pending proper consultation with stakeholders.
The Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations , which serves as the unifying voice of private education in the Philippines, the recently-issued order of DepEd would further marginalize the already “struggling” private schools.
Estrada said that the memo did not comply with the minimum public consultation and even publication requirement to be effective. Since it is not an inter-office memo, he stressed that “it requires administrative due process in DepEd’s function of rule-making.” With the public pressure from parents, including government officials, to reduce tuition, Estrada pointed out that private schools will not have enough funds to comply with the “non-negotiable minimum requirements” set by the DepEd.
COCOPEA also pointed out the timeliness of the Order’s issuance dated June 19, 2020. “Why release these requirements only now?” he asked. “The requirements are set at optimum but no counterpart funding support,” he added.The Alliance of Concerned Teachers Philippines, in a separate statement, also hit DepEd for its “hypocrisy” in the requirements it set for employing the blended modes of learning sans face-to-face classes in private schools.
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