Press Release - Highlights of Sen. Pia's sponsorship of the DepEd budget

PART 1: RESPONSE TO SENATORS BATO DELA ROSA, FRANCIS TOLENTINO & JINGGOY ESTRADA

Mr President, the violation of the conduct of a teacher, which would amount to a violation of election laws, would be under the jurisdiction of Comelec. But Deped can receive these complaints and forward it... But the ultimate judge or the ones who would hear these offenses would be Comelec, not Deped.

PART 2: RESPONSES TO SENATE MINORITY LEADER KOKO PIMENTEL

Mr President, the breakdown would be as follows:

Support to school and learners program, that's the teaching overload pay, that's P200 million; and that 200 million is further distributed as follows: elementary P40 million; junior high school P60 million; senior high school P100 million.

And then there is a special hardship allowance, this is P300 million

The School Voucher Program, P1 billion

The Educational Human Resource Development Program, which is the training of teachers for the Matatag Curriculum, that is P1.5 billion

That's for Deped, and then there is an additional P69 million for ECCD, that's the early childhood [education]; then P35.42 million for NAS; P25 million for NBDB; and then P20 million for NCCT; and P350 million for the National Museum... The latter ones were all attached agencies, your honor.
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The NEP was P714.16 billion and our Senate report came out as P718.08 billion.
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So, ang Senate nagtaas po tayo ng almost P4 billion, ang House nagtaas ng P395 million. Pero pwede niyo ho ako tanungin kung saan ho napunta yun.
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I hesitate to answer, your honor, because I don't want to violate the executive session, because there was some kind of decision made there, your honor. So can I ask for a minute suspension? ***

What the House did upon examination of the GAB that was submitted to us is they put it under the Government Assistance and Subsidies Educational Service Contracting. Ito po yung tinatawag na GASTPE.
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It's under the operations of schools, specifically... Mr President, I apologize for the delay, I am reconciling different responses that I am getting... Mr President, obviously we received this over the weekend. Yun na nga, our LBRMO, our in-house department assisting us, and the office of