Department of Education(DepEd)

January 7, 2019 Dear Regine Española, Greetings from the Department of Education (DepEd)! Please be informed that your concern will be forwarded to the Planning Service-Education Management Information System Division, this Department, for appropriate action and/or response. Any action in response to your concern will be communicated to you as soon as possible. Thank you. Respectfully, Public Assistance Action Center FOI Receiving Office

January 9, 2019 Dear Regine Española, I refer to my letter of Dec 20, 2018 04:16:48 PM about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Number of Public High schools in the Philippines and the student and teacher ratio. May we respectfully request you to send us your latest formal request letter particularly the indicated years, so that we can properly addressed your data request. You may use the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHwsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEkRlcEVkLTAyMjc4NDMxNzQwNAw, for request with ticket number #DepEd-022784317404, to respond. During the period of us awaiting your reply, your request will be put on hold. If we do not receive a reply on or before Apr 03, 2019 08:40:23 AM, your request will be closed. We hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time. Thank you. Respectfully, Public Assistance Action Center FOI Receiving Office

Apr 03, 2019 Dear Regine, I refer to my letter of Jan 09, 2019 about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Number of Public High schools in the Philippines and the student and teacher ratio. In particular, I had requested specific information for you to clarify upon in order for us to proceed with the request. As we have not received a reply within the 60-day working period since the letter requesting for clarification was sent out, we regret to inform you that this request will be closed as of Apr 03, 2019. You may wish to submit a new request describing the specific information you are looking for, and we will be able to consider it under the guidelines as stated in Executive Order No. 2. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to or visiting our central office. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Public Assistance FOI Officer