COMMITTED to providing further support to field offices and schools nationwide, the Department of Education (DepEd) is determined to maintain its 96 percent budget utilization rate (BUR) for 2021 despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.

'For 2021, we are aiming to maintain 96 percent or even surpass 97 percent for BUR. And I would like to congratulate and thank everyone because, despite Covid, DepEd continues to operate in 2020, a Covid year, and [in] 2020, we were able to actually implement 96 percent of our total funds,' said DepEd Undersecretary for Finance Annalyn Sevilla during the department's General Assembly 2021.