The Joint Implementing Guidelines of Executive Order No. 685

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The Joint Implementing Guidelines of Executive
Order No. 685

• EXPANDING THE PRE-SCHOOL COVERAGE TO INCLUDE
  FIVE-YEAR OLD CHILDREN ENROLLED IN DAY CARE
  CENTERS

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The following guidelines shall be observed
relative to the implementation of Executive Order
No. 685 on Expanding the Preschool Coverage to
Include Children Enrolled in Day Care Centers
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1. Expansion of coverage for pre-school education
of the Department of Education (DepEd) for
five-year old children shall include preschool
children handled in Day Care Centers.
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2. The expanded pre-school education program
shall be implemented starting SY 2008-2009
initially focusing on the 50 of the lowest
performing schools based on the results of the SY
2006-2007 National Achievement Test.
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3. Day Care centers shall be activated as a
facility for preschool education in barangays
where there are no public preschool classes
managed by the DepEd.
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4. In areas where there are existing day care
centers and public preschool classes, the
five-year old children shall be accommodated by
the public preschool. However, in case the
public pre-schools cannot accommodate all the 5
years old, day care centers shall be activated.
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5. In areas where there are no existing
facilities (i.e. public, private, PTCA funded,
LGU-initiated, Preschool service contracting,
NGO/church-based) for five-year old children,
DepEd shall organize preschool classes.
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5. In areas where there are no existing
facilities (i.e. public, private, PTCA funded,
LGU-initiated, Preschool service contracting,
NGO/church-based) for five-year old children,
DepEd shall organize preschool classes.
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6. Preschool classes for five-year old children
in day care centers shall be segregated from
sessions for children aged 3-4 years old.
Sessions for the younger age group shall be held
in the morning shift while classes for the five
years old children shall be held in the afternoon.
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7. Sessions for the five-year old children in
day care centers shall be handled by barangay day
care workers duly accredited by Department of
Social Welfare and Development and trained by
DepEd.
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8. DepEd shall provide a continuing professional
development program for day care workers to
ensure quality pre-school education.
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9. Supervision of the educational programs,
curriculum and instruction for the five-year old
children in Day Care Centers shall exercised by
the DepEd through the Regional and Division
Education Supervisors in charge of preschool
education. Local Government Units shall continue
to exercise the administrative functions as
provided for under Section 7 of Republic Act 8980
or the ECCD Act of 2000.
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10. The existing pre-school curriculum of DepEd
for five-year old children shall be used for the
implementation of this Executive Order and shall
be enhanced or updated once the early learning
standards (for 0-6) has been adopted by the
Council for the Welfare of Children (also the
National ECCD Coordinating Council).
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11. The ECCD Checklist shall continue to be
administered to all five-year-old children in day
care centers and pre-schools to assess childs
development.
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12. Full-scale implementation of this Executive
Order shall be undertaken on an incremental basis
starting in SY 2009-2010 until universal
pre-school education coverage is achieved by 2015.
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13. DepEd shall include in its annual general
appropriations the necessary funding to sustain
the implementation of this EO.
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14. The Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD), Department of Health (DOH)
and National Nutrition Council (NNC) shall
continue to extend support to Local Government
Units and to the Department of Education for
additional resources and technical support as
provided by the law.
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15. LGUs and other agencies concerned and
non-government organizations shall continue to
support the implementation of this Executive
Order.
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16. The DepEd as member of the Council shall
continue to provide the appropriate data to the
NECCDCC as required.
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17. The provisions of these Guidelines are hereby
declared to be separable. In the event the one
or more or its provisions are held to be invalid,
the validity of the other provision shall not be
affected thereby.
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18. These Guidelines shall take effect thirty
(30) days after its dissemination to the three
agencies involved.
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