Marcos approves return to old school calendar; SY 2024-2025 to end April 15

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday approved a proposal to end School Year 2024-2025 on April 15 — a schedule that allows for basic education schools to gradually revert to the old calendar without holding Saturday classes to meet the required number of school days.

The approved proposal retains the July 29 start of classes and pushes back the end of classes about a month earlier than originally planned by the Department of Education (DepEd) as stated in Order No. 003, s. 2024.  

This will start the country's gradual return to the old June-March school calendar, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said in a press release on Tuesday. 

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