The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed four tax evasion cases against private contractor Sarah Discaya over her alleged failure to declare and pay the right amount of income tax for 2020 and 2021.

he Sandiganbayan anti-graft court has affirmed the sufficiency of the non-bailable case of malversation of public funds through falsification of public documents filed by the Office of the Ombudsman against former senator Ramon “Bong” Revil...

The Department of Justice is looking into the possibility of filing civil forfeiture cases to recover in favor of the government the assets of the late Department of Public Works and Highways undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral.

Public schools nationwide have lost more than 30,000 teachers and teaching-related personnel during the last full term of Vice President Sara Duterte as the secretary of the Department of Education last year, according to the latest report from the Com...

Newly appointed Education Secretary Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said he is “confident” that the salaries of teachers will significantly increase under the Marcos administration.

The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Manila Electric Co. for the provision of electricity services in housing projects under the Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino Program.

Of 47,678 public schools nationwide, 5,844 suspended onsite classes yesterday due to extreme heat aggravated by the El Niño phenomenon.

Teachers groups Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) welcomed a reconciled bill by the Senate and the House of Representatives that would gradually increase the teaching allowance of public school teachers starting...

The Sandiganbayan has affirmed the finality of the dismissal of a forfeiture case against three of the firms created out of the Coconut Industry Investment Fund, also known as the coco levy funds, during martial law.

Commission on Higher Education chairman J. Prospero de Vera III has directed all state universities and colleges to stop offering the senior high school program starting next school year (SY 2024-2025), saying that there is no longer any legal basis to...

In time for the celebration of International Anti-Corruption Day yesterday, the Office of the Ombudsman is currently crafting a multi-sectoral, multi-year blueprint on fighting corruption in the government.

eachers and students of state universities and colleges yesterday called on the Senate to restore the P6 billion slashed from SUCs’ budget for 2024 and instead realign some P9 billion in confidential and intelligence funds of several government agencie...

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte honored the former vice presidents of the country yesterday for supposedly “strengthening” the Office of the Vice President and bringing it closer to the Filipino people.

The Commission on Audit has called out two government agencies over unfinished housing and water provision projects in areas affected by the 2013 Super Typhoon Yolanda.

The Sandiganbayan has allowed former senator and incumbent presidential legal counsel Juan Ponce Enrile to seek the dismissal of his plunder case in connection with the pork barrel scam, without presenting his defense.

Davao City appears to be the biggest spender of confidential funds among the country’s cities and municipalities between 2016 and 2022 when it was still under mayor Sara Duterte, who is now the Vice President, Commission on Audit (COA) records showed.

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte remains mum on the realignment of P650 million in proposed confidential funds of the Office of the Vice President and Department of Education for 2024 to other agencies involved in security and intell...

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte has urged education policymakers and experts to address the challenges and “uncertainties” in the use of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies in digital education.

The Commission on Audit has advised a five-star luxury resort in Boracay to directly recover from former tourism secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo, former undersecretary Katherine De Castro and three other former officials of the Department of Tourism (DOT) t...

The Sandiganbayan has upheld its earlier decision dismissing another forfeiture case filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) against the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, his widow Imelda and their cronies.

The second week of classes ended with 26.3 million officially enrolled students in elementary and high school – 2.5 million short of the Department of Education target of 28.8 million students for school year 2023 to 2024.