Filipino students lag in reading; Gatchalian backs bigger 2026 budget
Filipino Grade 5 students continue to lag behind their Southeast Asian peers in reading proficiency, according to a regional learning assessment.
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Filipino Grade 5 students continue to lag behind their Southeast Asian peers in reading proficiency, according to a regional learning assessment.
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Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said he believes the larger education budget for 2026 will help boost Filipino students’ reading proficiency.
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Trust is the quiet engine of medicine. Without it, no diagnosis truly settles, no treatment plan feels safe, and no reassurance genuinely reassures. For…
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‘Statements of concern are not enough. Now is the time to act. Business, professional, and civil society groups should demand urgent reforms to be implemented…
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‘As long as we all remain vigilant in guarding against the abuse of public funds, we can always be hopeful that things can change for the better.’
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We already had transparency. FoI. Seals. PDFs. Nobody read them because they were boring and useless. So now the genius move is to upload the same nonsense…
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Senate Committee on Finance Chair Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday confirmed that the chamber is reviewing the revised adjustment factors submitted by the…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, reaffirmed the Senate’s strong support for full transparency in the 2026…
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Senators on Tuesday, 16 December, assured the chamber would not approve an overpriced budget for the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), headed by Secretary Vince Dizon, apologized to the Senate Finance Committee for deficiencies in the data…
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Maybe because it is in his character not to be loud. I have known him for almost two decades; showboating is not in his vocabulary.
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It was observed that one ill effect of airing the process or livestreaming is that it disrupts how it functions and delays proceedings, as its members use the…
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The bicameral conference committee’s deliberations were postponed as the Senate and the House of Representatives worked to resolve issues related to the…
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The traditional pork barrel hive, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), was not on the Bicameral Conference Committee’s (Bicam) list on the first…
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The first-ever live-streamed bicameral conference committee for the national budget convened on Saturday, 13 December, at the Philippine International…
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Senator Imee Marcos flagged the absence of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) budget from the document listing provisions to be reconciled…
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G-HIVE would interface with existing financial and procurement systems and provide verified audit trails linking every stage of the budget cycle.
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