Dr. Corazon D. Santiago This is Me

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   Among the many special guests during the launch were the Honorable Feliciano Belmonte, Mayor of Quezon City; Fe Hidalgo, Undersecretary of the Department of Education, Corazon D. Santiago, Regional Director for NCR, Victoria Garchitorena, Chairperson of Ayala Corporation.

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   Dr. Corazon Santiago, NCR DepEd director, attributed the rise in public elementary school enrollment to the continuous transfer of residence to Metro Manila of many provincial families some of whom came from as far as Mindanao and the Visayas.
   
   Santiago said the increase in public grade school population has been noted in practically all the schools division in NCR.
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   According to Santiago, the perennial annual shortage of teachers and classrooms in NCR has been partly remedied by local schools division superintendents and elementary school principals by undertaking various emergency measures.
   
   These, Santiago said, included the adoption of the so-called double-single plan where one teacher handles one class in the morning and another class in the afternoon, increasing the size of classes from the ideal 40 to 60 up to 70 pupils per class, and class shifting where one classroom is alternately utilized by two or more classes in one day.

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   Dr. Corazon Santiago, NCR DepEd director, attributed the rise in public elementary school enrollment to the continuous transfer of residence to Metro Manila of many provincial families some of whom came from as far as Mindanao and the Visayas.
   
   Santiago said the increase in public grade school population has been noted in practically all the schools division in NCR.
   ...
   According to Santiago, the perennial annual shortage of teachers and classrooms in NCR has been partly remedied by local schools division superintendents and elementary school principals by undertaking various emergency measures.
   
   These, Santiago said, included the adoption of the so-called double-single plan where one teacher handles one class in the morning and another class in the afternoon, increasing the size of classes from the ideal 40 to 60 up to 70 pupils per class, and class shifting where one classroom is alternately utilized by two or more classes in one day.