“The Department of Education welcomes the recent statement of the Commission on Elections that it will no longer pursue filing criminal charges against teachers for backing out of their Electoral Board duties during the 2023.”
What Vera Files found
The Comelec did not make a definitive pronouncement on filing criminal charges against teachers who quit their electoral board duties. What Comelec Chairman George Garcia said was that the poll body will be filing cases against those who have threatened or caused violence against the teachers and other election personnel.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Sara Duterte made this claim around 4 November 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 13 November 2023, 9 days later. Its rating was “Inaccurate”.
Sara Duterte has 21 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.