{"id":21870,"date":"2026-10-26T01:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=21870"},"modified":"2026-10-26T01:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:11:45","slug":"up-to-50-of-public-schools-in-the-philippines-are-without-principal-gatchalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/up-to-50-of-public-schools-in-the-philippines-are-without-principal-gatchalian\/","title":{"rendered":"UP TO 50% OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES ARE WITHOUT PRINCIPAL \u2013 GATCHALIAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SENATE President Win Gatchalian flagged the persistent shortage of principals in public schools, claiming that up to 50% or 23,000 of the country\u2019s 45,928 public schools remain without a principal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Department of Education\u00a0 (DepEd) requested an additional P10.52 billion to create 14,126 School Principal I positions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNext year, this is the problem: there is no budget for the creation of principal positions. This is something that we\u2019re trying to solve in terms of operations,\u201d said Gatchalian during a recent budget hearing on DepEd and its attached agencies\u2019 proposed budget for 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emphasizing the need to address this shortage, the Senate President underscored the importance of having principals in public schools as they usually provide leadership and boost the morale of teachers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Education Undersecretary Wilfredo Cabral, some principal positions can be filled through reclassification of Head Teachers and Teachers-in-Charge under the Expanded Career Progression System, which received P12.09 billion under the National Expenditure Program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SENATE President Win Gatchalian flagged the persistent shortage of principals in public schools, claiming that up to 50% or 23,000 of the country&rsquo;s 45,928 public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal.jpg",702,311,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal-300x133.jpg",300,133,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal.jpg",640,284,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal.jpg",640,284,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal.jpg",702,311,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal.jpg",702,311,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal.jpg",702,311,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal.jpg",702,311,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal.jpg",702,311,false],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/principal-350x311.jpg",350,311,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/category\/national\/\" rel=\"category tag\">National<\/a>","tag_info":"National","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21873,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21870\/revisions\/21873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}