, completed one or two years in the program, and attended kindergarten the year after completing Head Start. Head Start children … make progress in important school readiness skills over the course of their time in Head Start and in the kindergarten year …

The continuous deterioration of the quality of education in the Philippines has prompted the DepEd to push for the … implementation of the K to 12 program, which entails the institutionalization of kindergarten and the addition of two more years of … high school in the basic education cycle. The proposal has spurred a heated debate on whether it could lead to improvements …