Responding to claims linking the alleged mass promotion policy of the Department of Education (DepEd) to the staggering incidence of functionally illiterate high school graduates reported by the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) is not implementing an “auto pass” or “mass promotion” policy for public school students. Education Secretary Sonny Angara ...

While Angara may be correct that there is no mass promotion policy, he must also acknowledge that DepEd could have prevented the unmitigated disaster of the 18.9 million functionally illiterate ...

DepEd laid out its plans to address the low functional literacy rates, including curriculum decongestion via Matatag; revisiting our grading and retention policies to combat "mass promotion;" ...

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The Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday, May 7, reiterated that there is no automatic pass or "auto-pass" policy in the Philippine public school system, amid growing concerns about the trend ...

MANILA – The Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday maintained that there is no “auto-pass” policy being imposed in public schools. DepEd Secretary Sonny Angara, however, emphasized the need to ...

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