FACT CHECK: NO DepEd cash assistance for graduating students
Two Facebook posts claim that the Department of Education is giving away P5,000 to P7,000 cash assistance to graduating students. These are fake.
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The indispensable Fajarda couple
As Sara Duterte had left the helm of the Department of Education, Edward Fajarda and his wife Sunshine Charry also transitioned to the Office of the Vice President. They were not to be left on their own at the DepEd without her. They were to go wherever their boss goes. That was how indispensable they were to her.
FACT CHECK: DepEd flip-flops on return to old school calendar
The DepEd has backtracked on its stand in April that public schools cannot immediately revert to the old academic calendar.
The importance of being an Angara
Aurora province is decidedly the bailiwick of the Angara political family. Eight Angaras have so far sat in various elective positions in the province and in its capital of Baler.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PEKE ang posts tungkol sa DepEd na namimigay ng ayuda sa mga ga-graduate
Sa kasalukuyang school year na matatapos sa May 31, maraming Facebook pages ang nagpapakalat na ang Department of Education ay namimigay raw ng ayuda para sa mga estudyanteng ga-graduate. Peke ito.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robredo NOT appointed DepEd chief
A YouTube video mockingly claimed that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed former vice president Leni Robredo as education secretary. This is false.
FACT CHECK: Marcos contradicts Duterte on return to old school calendar
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. contradicted the pronouncements of Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on the return to the old academic calendar for elementary and high schools.
FACT CHECK: DepEd’s order continuing voucher program for Grade 11 students in SUCs, LUCs for SY 2023-2024 needs context
Six months after stopping the issuance of vouchers for Grade 11 students enrolled in state and local universities and colleges for the current school year ending in June 2024, the Department of Education ordered that it be continued.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Order ng DepEd na ipagpatuloy ang voucher program para sa Grade 11 students sa SUCs, LUCs para sa SY 2023-2024 nangangailangan ng konteksto
Noong Hulyo 2023, naglabas ng memorandum ang DepEd na nagsasabi sa mga SUC at LUC na ang mga benepisyaryo ng Grade 11 voucher program ay hindi na tatanggapin mula sa kanilang mga paaralan simula school year 2023-2024, kasunod ng paglipas ng 2015 agreement sa Commission on Higher Education na nagpapahintulot sa SUCs at LUCs na mag-alok ng senior high school upang tumulong sa pagtugon sa mga isyu sa kapasidad ng DepEd.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB video NEEDS CONTEXT, K-12 not abolished
A video on Facebook talks about the “sudden” CHED memorandum on halting the admission of senior high school students. This needs context.
