Students and teachers can look forward to having the usual two-month break after the Department of Education (DepEd) dropped its plan to shorten it to two weeks.

Education Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio said a brief summer break would no longer be an option. He clarified that the proposal to shorten the summer break was “among the many options” considered and was not an official policy.

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