“‘Results show that only a few teachers reported having adequate time to teach all learning competencies,’ DepEd noted, adding that typically, only less than 20 percent of the teachers reported they had enough time to teach all the required learning competencies in a quarter. ‘Surprisingly, in some learning areas, almost half of the teachers did not have sufficient time to teach even half the number of learning competencies, it said’” (“DepEd reports early steps to revise ‘congested’ K-12,” News, 4/21/23).