DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus finds allies in local officials in preventing the spread of AH1N1 virus in the communities.

“In the midst of the spread of the AH1N1 virus, DepEd can have allies from our local government units through the Essential Health Care Program,” he said as he addressed the Vice Mayors League in Region 3 held in Clarkfield, Pampanga recently.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees that education is a universal right. The World Conferences for Education for All ensure this right. The 1987 Philippine Constitution devotes its full Article XIV to the protection and promotion of the welfare of the Filipino youth.

Philippine Education for All (EFA) envisions that all Filipinos are functionally literate by 2015. A high dropout rate and poor academic performances threaten the achievement of this vision. To reduce the threat, the Dropout Reduction Program (Dorp) was developed by the Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE) of the DepEd Central Office. The following are the strategic components of Dorp:

President Gloria Arroyo signed Wednesday the Salary Standardization Law (SSL) III that is expected uplift the condition of country’s government employees and boost the nation’s economy.

Congress approved Joint Reso-lution 26, a Malacañang-certified measure principally authored by Sen. Edgardo Angara that would upgrade the compensation of government employees in low-level up to top positions effective July 1.

The joint resolution has sought to correct the distortions and inconsistencies in the present compensation system, taking into account the principle of equal pay for work of equal value in proposing a performance-based scheme to reward exemplary civil servants.