DepEd: Budget reenactment won’t affect educationMANILA, Philippines — Teachers and learners will be unaffected by the week-long reenactment of last year’s national budget beginning yesterday, the Department of Education (DepEd) said yesterday. Existing programs are funded under the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA), ensuring uninterrupted operations, DepEd chief media relations officer Dennis Legaspi said. “Reenactment of the budget would only affect the rollout of new programs and the brief period will be used by the DepEd to finalize the necessary implementation guidelines,” he said. Malacañang has begun a “thorough review” of the 2026 budget, ratified on Monday by Congress as the nation continues to reel from the multibillion-peso flood control scandal. Education Secretary Sonny Angara, meanwhile, said 2025 was a year of action in education.

Source: Philippine Star January 01, 2026 21:08 UTC