FIVE senior officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) have tendered their courtesy resignations to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to give the new leadership a 'clean slate' in choosing his own team.

The five officials who sent their resignations to Marcos were chief of staff and longtime department spokesman Undersecretary Michael Wesley Poa, Undersecretary for Administration Nolasco Mempin, Assistant Secretary for the Office of the Secretary Sunshine Fajarda, Assistant Secretary for Procurement Reynold Munsayac, and Assistant Secretary for Administration Noel Baluyan.