Millions of public school children in the Philippines returned to class, as the government prepares to test a new curriculum aimed at improving the performance of kindergarten through Grade 10 pupils. According to data from the Department of Education (DepEd), more than 22.676 million pupils were officially enrolled for the school year 2023-2024. The DepEd anticipates 28 million registrations for the next school year, which began a few weeks ago for certain private schools. Following the end of a two-year research, 30 schools in six areas will participate in the pilot implementation of the redesigned K to 10 curriculum, known as the "Matatag Curriculum," this school year.
The test, according to Jocelyn Andaya, head of the DepEd's Bureau of Curriculum Development, will begin two weeks after the pilot schools are chosen on August 29. Kindergarten, Grades 1, 4, and 7, would be initially covered for this school year. The new K–10 curriculum, which will be phased in until 2028, will "decongest" the present curriculum by concentrating on pupils' reading and numeracy abilities. According to Andaya, 70% of the learning criteria in the present K–10 program have been deleted. were likewise dropped from 7 to 5 under the modified K to 10. It currently includes disciplines like language, reading and literacy, mathematics, patriotism, and good manners. Education authorities feel that changing the country's basic education curriculum, or K-12, is the long-term solution to kids' low performance, which has been aggravated by epidemic school closures. The senior high school curriculum is currently being reviewed. According to Philippine National Police commander Benjamin Acorda Jr., over 32,000 police officers were deployed around the nation for this year's school opening.
