Panayam kay ASEC. Francis Bringas, DEPED

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00:00 The Department of Education has now been divided among the LGUs of Taguig and Makati City,

00:05 which are still fighting for the right to enroll in the Enlisted Men's Barrio, or EMBO areas.

00:10 And we will talk about another issue, Deputy Assistant Secretary Francis Bringas.

00:16 Good morning, Bringas.

00:18 Hello, good morning, Ivan.

00:20 [Foreign Language]

00:30 Nothing affected in the area, nothing affected or caught through this.

00:38 Of course, we have no side to defend this.

00:43 We only have a side, the side of our students.

00:47 That's why the Department of Education assumed authority over the operations and management of these schools.

00:55 In the meantime, we still don't have a transition plan for the whole 14 schools.

01:01 Okay. So until when will the setup be in place for the DepEd to be able to serve?

01:07 Until there's a settlement or agreement between the two LGUs.

01:13 Yes. The legal aspect of the transition plan needs to be settled because the Department created a transition committee

01:22 to study this and to have inventory and all preparations on what will happen to Sigalot.

01:31 But without going into the merits, please explain to our viewers,

01:35 what are the issues that the two LGUs are fighting over when it comes to the schools?

01:42 Well, the issue between the two LGUs is the management or the jurisdiction.

01:52 This is the division because there are so-called city schools division offices.

01:59 This is the one that manages the schools.

02:02 In the case of Makati and Taguig, we have two separate division offices there.

02:10 So the issue is...

02:14 Asek? Asek Bringas? Asek Bringas?

02:21 Our communication was cut off. We will return to him.

02:26 We will return to DepEd Assistant Secretary Francis Bringas. Asek?

02:31 Yes. I'm sorry Ivan. We were cut off.

02:34 We just want to know the question. What are the points of contention of Taguig and Makati when it comes to the 14 schools?

02:44 Yes. The involvement of the Department in this Sigalot is only to determine where the schools division offices will belong to these 14 schools.

02:53 You know that in our cities, we have schools division offices that are in charge of all the schools within the jurisdiction of the cities.

03:02 Since the legal aspects are not yet fixed and the transition plan is still needed,

03:09 if anything will happen, if the city will go there, we have created a transition committee to study this.

03:18 But the bottom line is, especially the affected youth and their parents,

03:23 their question is, will the school admission to the affected schools continue?

03:29 Of course. We precisely assumed authority over these schools to assure our parents and students that we will continue to open the 14 schools on August 29.

03:41 Okay. In other talks, Asek, how ready are you for the admission on August 29 nationwide?

03:49 I know there are still studies going on. There are still under flood waters and there are damages. How is it?

03:57 Okay. Our schools that it's not possible to have a face-to-face opening on August 29, our official opening on August 29 is still ongoing.

04:08 But these schools were already advised to adopt alternative delivery mode so that their opening of classes will not be delayed.

04:15 We have distance learning modalities that are employed in the schools.

04:20 The lack of classrooms because some are at home, others will adopt shifting classes in this area so that we can open all schools nationwide on August 29.

04:33 How many learners will return to school on August 29, Asek?

04:37 We expect that the 28 million that we have, around that number, 29 million last year, so around that number, we expect that we will troop back to the schools.

04:49 Asek, thank you for the update.

04:52 Okay Ivan. Thank you very much.

04:54 We talked to Dept. Assistant Secretary Francis Bringas.

04:59 (In Tagalog)

05:11 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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