More than 85K learners attend face-to-face classes in CAR

March 13, 2022 Provincial

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (PIA) – More than 85,000 learners are now participating in face-to-face classes in the Cordillera region.
The Department of Education – Cordillera Regional Office said that as of March 3, 2022, there are 85,775 learners taking part in the expanded limited face-to-face classes in the different provinces in the region.
Most of the learners are from the elementary level with 52,658 followed by the Junior High School level with 18,965 and the Senior High School level with 7,362.
DepEd-CAR Regional Director Estela Cariño said that more than 200 schools initially opened up for the expansion of the limited face-to-face in CAR but with the lowering of the alert levels in the different areas in the region to either to 1 or 2 this month, there are now 740 schools participating as of March 3, 2022.
The Benguet Schools Division has the highest number of participating schools in the limited face-to-face classes with 253, followed by Ifugao with 211, Mountain Province with 158, Abra with 43, Tabuk City with 39, Kalinga with 18, Apayao with 11 and Baguio City with the lowest number of school at seven.
Cariño earlier said that they are eyeing to open the 765 learning institutions that initially submitted intentions to participate in the expanded
limited face-to-face classes until March 15.
The DepEd Regional Office together with the local government units continues to conduct inspection and validation of schools for the limited face-to-face program to ensure that the different protocols and other safety measures are being implemented properly.
The schools which already opened were validated as compliant with the standards of the School Safety Assessment Tool and were given consent by their respective local government units.
The DepEd also continues to assess the implementation of face-to-face classes to make sure that adjustments will be done when F2F classes will be expanded to other schools including the private learning institutions in the Cordillera region.
(JDP/RMC- PIA CAR)