DepEd: Teachers’ admin tasks will be removed

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte had formally signed a directive to all school division offices (SDOs) and school heads to remove the administrative tasks of teachers.

The Department Order (DO) 002 series of 2024 dated Jan. 26, instructed the immediate removal of administrative tasks of public-school teachers to guarantee their welfare and improve their quality of teaching.

Let’s bring our teachers back to the classrooms,

Duterte said in a statement released on Saturday, Jan. 27.

This DO shall take effect immediately upon its approval, issuance and publication on the DepEd website,

 she added.

The DO had already been uploaded on DepEd website on Friday.

According to the DO guidelines, the order covers all DepEd-employed teachers engaged in classroom teaching, on a fuIl-time basis, under permanent, provisional or substitute status in all public elementary and secondary schools.

The admin tasks removed are personnel administration, property/physical facilities custodianship, general administrative support, financial management, records management, feeding, school disaster risk reduction and management, and other related programs.