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[Title] => Budget woes leave 23K public schools without principal
[Summary] => The proposed 2027 National Expenditure Program contains no funding for hiring new school principals despite 45 percent of public schools lacking principal plantilla items, the Second Congressional Commission on Education revealed yesterday.
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[Title] => EDITORIAL - Wanted: Guidance counselors
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[Title] => EDCOM 2: Address rising stunting rate
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[Title] => EDITORYAL — Hindi sapat ang ibreng tuition
[Summary] => KAHAPON (Setyembre 4), nilagdaan ni President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ang Republic Act 12325, ang batas na nagpapalawak sa Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act. Layunin nitong mas maraming mahihirap na estudyante ang makatanggap ng tulong ng gobyerno upang makapasok, at higit sa lahat, makapagtapos, ng kolehiyo.
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[Title] => Metro Naga forms coalition on anti-stunting, literacy
[Summary] => A joint resolution creating the Metro Naga Coalition on Anti-Stunting and Literacy was signed by 18 local government units and key partners in Naga City on Thursday, according to the Second Congressional Commission on Education.
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[Title] => EDCOM 2 pushes for granular class suspensions
[Summary] => The Second Congressional Commission on Education is pushing for localized and science-based decisions on class suspensions, saying repeated disruptions continue to take away valuable learning time from students.
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[Title] => 69% of public schools still without titles – EDCOM 2
[Summary] => At least 69 percent of public schools nationwide remain untitled to the Department of Education, delaying much-needed classroom construction and worsening congestion, the Second Congressional Commission on Education reported yesterday.
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[Title] => DepEd still faces backlog of 166,000 classrooms
[Summary] => Warning that the classroom crisis is no longer simply a matter of building more classrooms, the Second Congressional Commission on Education urged the Department of Education to prioritize classroom construction in the country’s most severely congested schools while keeping pace with aging infrastructure, disasters and longstanding governance bottlenecks.
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[Title] => Philippines stunting rate rises to 25.3% – report
[Summary] => The Second Congressional Commission on Education expressed alarm over the findings of the 2025 Updating Survey Results released by the Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute after it found that the stunting rate among under-five children, especially those aged 0 to 59 months, has reached 25.3 percent, equivalent to roughly one in four children.
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