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COTABATO CITY (SDN) — The Department of Education (DepEd) headed by Vice President and DepEd Secretary Inday Sara Duterte has opened the school year 2023-2024 this year.
Millions of learners across the Philippines, including in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have started going to school.
The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the Special Geographic Area’s (SGA) 63 barangays or villages that voted “Yes” in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; undivided Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur.
To help teachers with their work, the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) under the leadership of Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal continued to distribute Teacher’s Kits.
This time the recipients are 252 teaching personnel representing schools divisions offices (SDOs) from the provinces of Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte.
The recipient schools of Project IQBAL’s Teacher’s Kits are the following:
4. Datu Bunta Elementary School