Department of Education 05 AUG 2014 DepEd ORDER No. 34, s. 2014 AMENDED GUIDELINES IN DEPED ORDER NO. 26, S. 2014 (Policies and Guidelines on the Implementation of the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) Program Effective School Year (SY) 2014-2015) To: Undersecretaries Assistant Secretaries Bureau Directors Directors of Services, Centers and Heads of Units Regional Secretary, ARMM Regional Directors Schools Division Superintendents Heads, Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools All Others Concemed 1, The Department of Education (DepEd) amends Item IV.B. 1 (Amounts of the ESC and Other Financial Matters) of the enclosure to DepEd Order No. 26, s. 2014 (Policies and Guidelines on the Implementation of the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) Program Effective School Year (SY) 2014-2015), which reads as: The amount of subsidy for Grade 7 grantees in SY 2014- 2015 in regions outside the NCR shall be Six Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P 6,500.00) per grantee for an entire school year, subject to the adjustments approved by the State Assistance Council (SAC)... 2. This provision is amended as follows: The amount of subsidy for Grade 7 grantees in SY 2014- 2015 in regions outside the NCR shall be Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (P 7,500.00) per grantee for an entire school year, subject to the adjustments approved by the State Assistance Council (SAC)... 3. The One Thousand Pesos (P 1,000.00) increase in the subsidy Is in recognition of the increases in tuition and other school fees in private schools. The increase was approved by the State Assistance Council (SAC) through a referendum and is applicable only to the new grantees for SY 2014-2015. The amount of subsidy for Grades 8-10 grantees in regions outside NCR shall be the same as that they received in the previous school year (Grades 8 and 9, P 6,500.00 and Grade 10, P 5,500.00 per grantee). The amount of subsidy for students in NCR remains to be P 10,000.00 per grantee for an entire school year. Dept Compl, Merc Avenue, Pasig cay 1600 529-7205 /699-7228/600-1961 Md go5-4876/697-6000 4 yn ceped gor4, Other provisions of DepEd Order No. 26, s. 2014 shall remain enforced. 5. Immediate dissemination of and strict compliance with this Order is directed. BR. ISTRO FSC Secretary Reference: DepEd Order: (No. 26, s. 2014) To be indicated in the Perpetual Index under the following subjects: AMENDMENT. SCHOOLS FUNDS SECONDARY EDUCATION POLICY STUDENTS PROGRAMS TEACHERS ReAlma/ DO amended guidelines to DO.26,, 2014 0470" une 80/suly 8/22/28, 2014