The report coincided with the release of a recent statement from the United Nations Children’s Fund that less than 15 percent of Filipino children can read a simple text at age 10, prompting a lawmaker to urge the government to open all schools in the country for limited in-person classes.
Based on the agency’s quick count, 17,054 public and 425 private schools are ready to resume physical classes as of March 28, stopped by the government in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic.DepEd said these schools were either fully compliant with the department’s School Safety Assessment Tool or compliant but with pending local government unit concurrence.
The department said there were approximately 3.1 million learners who are participating in classroom-based learning nationwide. With the increasing number of schools holding in-person classes, DepEd is set to release policies related to the progressive expansion of onsite learning, including the updated SSAT.
UNICEF said even before the COVID-19 pandemic, “more than half of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries were unable to read or comprehend a simple story.”
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