The Department on Education yesterday announced that it has moved the start of the early registration for School Year 2020-2021 to Feb. 1, Saturday, as Jan. 25, Saturday, is the Chinese New Year, a special non-working holiday.
DepEd said that the early registration which ends on March 6 aims to ensure that all new entrants for Kindergarten and Grades 1, 7, and 11 are accommodated in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide.
DepEd had earlier announced that the early registration will be held from Jan. 25 to Feb. 28 for Kindergarten and the other three grade levels.
Through DepEd Order No. 3, Series of 2018, otherwise known as the “Basic Education Enrolment Policy,” Education Secretary Leonor Briones stated that early registration seeks to locate, identify, and register out-of-school children and youth in the community who may be characterized as living with disability/ies, living in off-grid/far-flung community; 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/drug abuse; having chronic illness or nutritional problem/s; victim of child abuse or economic exploitation; stateless/undocumented; in conflict with the law; living on the streets; and no longer in school but interested in going back to school. (Ina Hernando Malipot)