“President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says the administration will find ways to speed up the move to return as soon as possible to the old academic calendar for elementary and high schools.”
What Vera Files found
Vice President and Education Secretary says the Education department cannot immediately shift to the old school calendar as the agency cannot compromise the health of learners and teachers by taking away their rest period.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made this claim around 10 April 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 12 April 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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