Salary upgrades for 93,344 public school personnel are underway after the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) approved the release of an additional P8.68 billion to the Department of Education.

The DBM approved the release of additional funds for the salaries of promoted and reclassified public school teachers.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday, September 2, visited residents of Barangay Sta. Fe in this town, checking on their needs and pledging government assistance for a long-term solution to the problem of accessing the isolated village.

  The military never received confidential funds from the Department of Education when DepEd was headed by Vice President Sara Duterte, according to a member of her defense team who testified as a hostile witness in her impeachment trial yesterday.

Although he signed the Department of Education’s replies to a state audit on confidential funds, lawyer Michael Poa, Vice President Sara Duterte’s second-in-command at DepEd, yesterday washed his hands of the matter, pointing responsibility instead to a former special disbursing officer who is currently unavailable due to a medical condition.