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Tag: k-12

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    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that Sara Duterte will abolish K to 12 FALSE

    By vera files fact check  |  Jun 23, 2022 9:31 AM

    Several social media posts are spreading the false claim that Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio will scrap the K to 12 education system.  Posted on Facebook (FB) group random pics from pinterest last June 21, four screenshots of a TikTok video bore the superimposed text: “K-12 tatanggalin na daw gagi na abotan agad […]

    Department of Education, false, k-12, Sara Duterte-Carpio, Tiktok

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Sara Duterte quote on K to 14 and ROTC FAKE

    By vera files fact check  |  Jun 01, 2022 5:00 PM

    A fake quote card attributed to Vice President-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio made it look like she would add two more years to the existing K-12 basic education system.  The fake graphic is an altered version of a quote card first published on May 15 by Iloilo City-based community paper Daily Guardian that had Duterte-Carpio saying she’s […]

    fake quote, K to 12, k-12, Sara Duterte-Carpio

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    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robredo quote card saying K to 12 needs two more years is FAKE

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 17, 2021 2:24 PM

    The statement in the rehashed graphic is just one of the many fake quotes attributed to Robredo, some of them created to mock her intelligence.

    k-12, Leni Robredo, Robredo, Vice President

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    K-12 to use sign language as mother tongue for deaf

    Jul 08, 2012 11:12 PM

    By MIKHAIL FRANZ E. FLORES

    Now that the K to 12 system of education is being enforced in the country and native languages have begun to be used as medium of instruction from kindergarten to Grade 3, deaf children will also get the chance to use their mother tongue: sign language.

    deaf, k-12, PWD, PWDs

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    Gov’t rolls out K-12 system

    Jun 02, 2012 11:26 AM

    By YVONNE T. CHUA
    WHEN classes open on Monday, the country is finally giving up the distinction of being the only country in Asia that has a pre-university education of just 10 years.

    The Department of Education is rolling out in all 45,619 public elementary and high schools the “K to 12 curriculum,” beginning with Grades and 1 and 7, also called the “new high school.”

    basic education, deped, k-12

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    Stop K-12, asks teachers group

    Jun 02, 2012 11:23 AM

    AN association of school teachers has called for a stop to the implementation of the government’s K-12 basic education program, citing the absence of a law authorizing the program and the “disastrous” partial implementation of universal kindergarten last year.

    basic education, deped, k-12

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