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THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is taking efforts to ensure that students who have enrolled will not stop schooling, its Secretary Rexlon 'Rex' Gatchalian said, as he recognizes the declining enrollment and incidences of school drop-outs. Gatchalian also said that the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is still on track to achieve its primary goal of sending children to school, as classes began in all public schools on Tuesday.

Children’s education has suffered the brunt of Sri Lanka’s economic blow, writes Thursica Kovinthan Levi (University of Toronto).

You may recall that in 2015, we launched the First National Strategy to End Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy (2014/15-2019/2020).

The High Court has directed a high-powered committee to suggest measures to bring these kids back to schools.

Don. that is absolutely right. we've deprioritized kids at every step of this pandemic. we are coming up on two years of disrupted learning and there is a casualness around closing schools i just don't understand. the costs are severe and accumulating, well documented. everything from loss in reading and math gains for kids in school. your last caller said a hundred thousand kids missing from the school system last year. we see the immediate impact of school closures on the inability to detect child maltreatment. in new york city in the first three months of closures in 2020, 8,000 expected ca...