• THERESA MAE DULMAN
The Department of Education (DepEd) is set to distribute 11,000 new Macbook laptops to public school teachers across the Negros Island Region (NIR) from November to March.
DepEd-NIR spokesperson Almyr Caesar Dequiña said the gadgets are being delivered directly to recipient schools across the region.
“The regional office is in the process of tracking and consolidating data regarding the deliveries,” he said.
Dequiña noted that several schools under the Schools Division Offices (SDOs) of Negros Occidental, Bacolod City, and Talisay City have already received their allocations.
Among the recipients were 81 teachers from Negros Occidental High School in Bacolod City, who received their brandnew laptops Nov. 10.
They are among the 172,654 public school teachers and administrative staff nationwide receiving Apple MacBook Neo laptops in a rollout that began Nov. 9.
Eligible teachers and personnel, who did not receive a device in previous rollouts, will be prioritized in the distribution, followed by those without a government-issued laptop. | TMD
