The Department of Education (DepEd) has released a new set of guidelines on the cancellation or suspension of classes and work in schools in the event of disasters and other natural calamities in the country.
DepEd Order No. 37 series of 2022 signed by Vice President and DepEd Secretary Sara Duterte on September 1 aims to lessen the unnecessary health and safety risks students and school personnel may face during disasters and calamities. This is a revision of the DepEd Order No. 43 released in 2012 wherein suspension of classes at different levels varies as the typhoon signal number issued by PAGASA escalates.
Effective immediately after publication on the DepEd website e as well as its filing with the Office of the National Administrative Registrar (ONAR) at the University of the Philippines (UP) Law Center, UP Diliman, Quezon City, the following are the new guidelines on class and work suspension during typhoons, heavy rainfall, flood, and earthquakes.
According to the DO, the guidelines shall be observed at all levels of governance within:
SOURCE: DepEd Order No. 037, s. 2022
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