By INA HERNANDO MALIPOT
The Department of Education will hold its early registration for incoming Kindergarten and Grades 1, 7, and 11 learners in all public and private elementary and secondary schools from Jan. 25 to Feb. 28.
DepEd said that the month-long initiative aims to ensure that all new entrants are registered for School Year 2020-2021.
DepEd added that the early registration will also help the department better address and prepare for possible issues and concerns during the enrollment proper.
It reminded stakeholders to take note of the requirements before proceeding to the early registration desks.
The early registration targets to locate, identify, and register out-of-school children and youth in the community who may be characterized as living in off-grid or far-flung communities, a barangay without a school, or a geographically isolated area; displaced due to natural disaster; living in an armed conflict area or area with high level of criminality and drug abuse; living with disabilities; having chronic illness or nutritional problem; victim of child abuse or economic exploitation; stateless or undocumented; in conflict with the law; living on the streets; and no longer in school, and shall be encouraged and assisted to go back through the formal system, Alternative Delivery Mode, or the Alternative Learning System.
DepEd noted that offices in all governance levels are directed to conduct information dissemination and advocacy campaigns to raise public awareness on the early registration to be led by the Public Affairs Service, Bureau of Learning Delivery, Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development, and the Bureau of Learner Support Services at the DepEd Central Office in Pasig City.
The regional and schools division offices were directed to organize a team that will spearhead the advocacy campaigns.
“Schools shall designate early registration desks in the school premises to be manned by individuals tasked to handle the registration,” DepEd said. “They shall also undertake activities such as house-to-house campaigns, dissemination of print materials, social media information campaign, and engagement with parents, barangay officials, civic and people’s organizations, and other stakeholders,” it added.
DepEd said that the conduct of early registration is pursuant to DepEd Order No. 3, Series of 2018, otherwise known as the “Basic Education Enrollment Policy,” aimed at consolidating the various issuances on enrollment and institutionalizing a basic education enrollment process. (Ina Hernando Malipot)
