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DepEd violated own
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Action leaves some areas with acute classroom
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By Jonathan M. Hicap,
Reporter
If the Department of Education has problems addressing the classroom
shortage, it’s probably because the department prioritized
constructing buildings in areas where the need was less acute.
DepEd built 22
school buildings worth P28.67 million in low-priority areas in six
regions, in violation of its own school-building policy, according
to the Commission on Audit (COA).
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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RP behind on
millennium goals
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The Philippines is making slow
progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals or MDG, which
are development targets that 189 countries have pledged to achieve
by 2015.
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Estrada closes
door on pardon
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Convicted ex-President Joseph
Estrada has closed the door on a presidential pardon on Monday,
blaming Malacañang’s insincerity.
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JI suspect claims
he was trained by MILF
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ZAMBOANGA CITY: Philippine
authorities have repeatedly linked the country’s largest Muslim
rebel group to the radical Indonesian group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) and
the Saudi Arabia’s al-Qaeda terror network.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Barangay, SK polls
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Quality of
barangay reflects on country
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There are 41,995 barangay units
in the Philippines as of 2006. They could contain only 50 to 100
families in several hundreds of hectares, as in many rural villages.
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