School Based Feeding News Today

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said the country’s basic education is on track to recovering from the impact of the pandemic as the Department of Education (DepEd) made strides in improving curriculum, school infrastructure and equipment as well as student and teacher competencies. Speaking at the presentation of DepEd’s Basic…

Apart from difficulties with distance learning, underprivileged school children who were forced by the pandemic to attend classes remotely faced another problem: the loss of the School-Based Feeding Program.

The Department of Education (DepEd) said on Saturday that it is investigating an incident where bouts of food poisoning affected Negros Oriental-based elementary school students who consumed allegedly contaminated milk during the agencys School-Based Feeding Program.