THE Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) has called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to ensure that its newly released policy on removing administrative tasks of public school teachers be fully implemented despite possible bottlenecks due to a lack of non-teaching personnel and clustering of schools.
DepEd Order 2 (DO2) series of 2024, signed by Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on January 26, ordered the immediate removal of administrative tasks of public school teachers with the aim of "building a conducive environment for effective teaching and learning to thrive."
DO2 also said there would be a 60-day transition period for Schools Division Offices (SDOs) where it would provide support for clustering of schools, deployment of non-teaching personnel, insurance of the immediate transfer and turnover of existing administrative tasks, and hiring of administrative support personnel.
Edcom 2's Year One report indicated that teachers had lamented their inability to focus on teaching their students, given the burden of more than 50 ancillary and administrative tasks.
During a hearing of the commission last February 8 at the University of the Philippines-Bonifacio Global City campus, Education Officer in Charge Wilfredo Cabral, undersecretary for Human Resource and Organizational Development, said that during the transitory period, SDOs should be tasked to submit a proposed deployment of non-teaching personnel and clustering of schools.
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