The Department of Education is scheduled to conduct the early registration of incoming Kindergarten and Grades 1, 7, and 11 learners in all public schools nationwide starting this month.
Based on the “Basic Education Enrollment Policy” issued by Education Secretary Leonor Briones in DepEd Order No. 3, Series of 2018, the early registration – which covers incoming Kinder and Grades 1, 7, and 11 learners in public schools – “shall be conducted from the last Saturday of January to the last Friday of February of each year.”
The last Saturday of this month falls on Jan. 26 while the last Friday of next month falls on Feb. 22.
Briones in the order noted that “incoming Grades 2 to 6, Grades 8 to 10, and Grade 12 learners are considered pre-registered.”
Thus, she said, there is no need for these students to participate in the early registration.
Early registration, Briones explained, is conducted to “ensure all new entrants for Kindergarten, Grades 1, 7, and 11 learners are registered” as well as to “locate, identify, and register” out-of-school children and youths in the community.
These may include learners living with disabilities; living in an off-grid community; living in a barangay without a school; living in a geographically isolated area; displaced due to natural disaster; living in an armed conflict area, living in an area with high level of criminality and drug abuse;
Having chronic illness; having nutritional problems; victims of child abuse or economic exploitation; stateless or undocumented; in conflict with the law; living on the streets; and those who are no longer in school but interested in going back to schools.
Briones noted that offices on all governance levels – specifically those in areas with learners that have been earlier identified – shall conduct an information dissemination and advocacy campaign “to raise public awareness of early registration.” (Ina Hernando Malipot)