The Department of Education-Western Visayas will launch its Brigada Eskwela in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, on Friday, July 19.
DepEd-6 Spokesperson Hernani Escullar said that they will be kicking-off the school clean-up program in La Castellana in preparation for the opening of classes on July 29.
The week-long event is a yearly activity of the agency to prepare the classrooms to ensure that the students can study well on the first day of classes, he said.
The new school year will see the implementation of the first phase of the Matatag Curriculum for kinder and grades 1, 4, and 7 learners, Escullar said.*