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DepEd issuances, 2000 to 2026

DepEd Orders: what they are, and which have been repealed or amended

A DepEd Order is how the Department of Education sets policy for the whole country, and a later order can repeal or amend it. Search the orders issued from 2000 to 2026 to see which later order changed each one, with the sentence that does it, and read what DepEd Orders are, how they are numbered, how they take effect, and how they end.

By Mark Anthony Llego Published Updated

DepEd Orders from 2000 to 2026
1,588
Repealed in whole by a later order
82
Amended or partly repealed
216
With no later change found
1,229

How many orders each series year holds, and what later orders did to them. Select a column or bar to list those orders in the table below.

Orders by series year and statusEach column is one series year, stacked by what later orders did to its orders. 2009 has the most orders in the tracker, 112. Of the years with at least 20 orders, 2020 has the largest share changed by a later order, 45%. The newest orders have had the least time to be changed.
  • Repealed
  • Partly repealed
  • Amended or otherwise changed
  • No later change found

Source: NASH Reviewer DepEd Orders tracker, from the text of each order

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DepEd Orders by series year and status
SeriesOrdersRepealedPartly repealedAmended or otherwise changedNo later change foundChanged
200020000200%
2001561084716%
2002596054819%
20038783126426%
20046313104922%
2005661185615%
2006491254116%
2007803786223%
20087511116217%
200911223169119%
2010942358411%
20111022498715%
20128344146127%
2013551854125%
2014512743825%
20155736113735%
2016699694535%
20176710284730%
2018538193534%
2019382333021%
2020403692245%
2021604584328%
2022511393825%
2023265141638%
2024220241627%
2025322112813%
202621000210%
Orders by status1,229 of 1,588 orders have no later change found, so the bars for the other statuses are short. Each count is at the end of its bar.

Source: NASH Reviewer DepEd Orders tracker, from the text of each order

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DepEd Orders by status
StatusOrders
Repealed82
Partly repealed82
Implementation deferred4
Amended134
Supplemented or clarified53
Possibly changed4
No later change found1,229

Find a DepEd Order

Search by number (13 2024), title, or topic, or narrow the list by status or year. Open an order to read its summary, every later order that names it with the sentence and page, what it changed in turn, and the link to its official PDF.

94 of 1,588 orders match. Show all 1,588 orders

Changed by
Updating the Technical Specifications of ICT Equipment and Internet Access ServicesNo later change found
Supervision of the Utilization of the 2010 Tech-Voc Intervention Funds for the Repair and Rehabilitation of Laboratory Workshops and Upgrading of Electrical FacilitiesNo later change found
Designation of Undersecretary Rizalino D. Rivera as the Focal Person for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Program and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) InitiativesSupplemented or clarified
Adoption of the New BESRA Implementation ArrangementAmended
Qualification Standards for the Position of Education Program SupervisorNo later change found
Revised Guidelines on the Utilization of the Financial Support Fund to the Secondary Schools SPED ProgramNo later change found
Addendum to DepEd Order No. 113, s. 2009 (Guidelines for the Transfer of Funds for the DepEd Internet Connectivity Project (DICP))No later change found
Addendum to DepEd Order No. 14, s. 2008 (Implementation of Constructors Performance Evaluation System-Implementing Group)No later change found
Amendments to DepEd Order No. 56, s. 2007 (Creation of Constructors Performance Evaluation System-Implementing Group (CPES-IG))No later change found
Extension of the Implementation of the DepEd Internet Connectivity Project (DICP) and Guidelines for the Transfer of Funds for Secondary Schools Connected Only by Satellite CompaniesNo later change found
Corrigendum to DepEd Order No. 112, s. 2009 (List of Approved Supplementary Reading and Reference Materials)No later change found
Authority of Dr. Estrella A. Babano as Education Attaché in the Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaNo later change found
Requiring All Regional/Division Offices to Upgrade Their Internet Subscription to Business/Corporate Package for the Implementation of the Asset Management System (AMS)No later change found
Enhancing the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) Curriculum Towards ProductivityNo later change found
Revised Guidelines on the Condemnation and Demolition of School BuildingsNo later change found
Reconstituting the DepEd Adjudication Committee for Automatic Payroll Deduction SystemNo later change found
Reiterating the Constitutional Right of DepEd Personnel and Students to Free Exercise of ReligionNo later change found
Revised List of Science and Technology (S&T) - Oriented High Schools Implementing the Engineering and Science Education Program (ESEP)No later change found
Policy and Procedure for Issuance and Custody of FirearmsNo later change found
Submission of Priority Lists of School Buildings for Funding under the Balance of CY 2010 School Building Program Budget for Areas Experiencing Acute Classroom ShortageNo later change found
The Alternative Learning System (ALS) Curriculum for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) EducationNo later change found
Review of Trainings, Seminars, Workshops, Conferences, and Other Capacity Building ActivitiesNo later change found
Designation of Regional and Division Communications OfficersNo later change found
Addressing the President of the PhilippinesNo later change found
Addressing the Secretary of the Department of EducationNo later change found

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What each status means

An order’s status is the strongest change that a later DepEd Order makes to it in so many words. Take it as a pointer: read the quoted sentence, and the order itself, before you rely on it.

Repealed
A later issuance repealed, rescinded, revoked, or superseded the whole order, or ended it for good.
Partly repealed
A later issuance repealed some of its provisions, or whatever in it conflicts with the new issuance. The rest may still apply.
Implementation deferred
Its implementation was deferred, suspended, or put under a moratorium, and no later lifting was found.
Amended
Still in force, with parts amended, modified, or revised by a later issuance.
Supplemented or clarified
Still in force. A later issuance added to it, clarified it, corrected it, or extended it.
Possibly changed
A later issuance seems to change it, but not in explicit words. Read the quoted sentence.
No later change found
No later DepEd Order in the tracker names it as changed. Often still in force, but it may be time-bound, ended in part by a general repealing clause, or changed by a law, a memorandum, or another issuance the tracker doesn’t read.

The orders that changed the most

Some orders rewrite many earlier issuances. Others are rewritten again and again, so their current rules have to be pieced together from several orders. Select a bar to open the order in the table.

Orders that change the most earlier issuancesEach bar counts the earlier orders and memoranda an order names as repealed, amended, or otherwise changed, in explicit words, each counted once.

Source: NASH Reviewer DepEd Orders tracker, from the text of each order

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Orders that change the most earlier issuances
OrderTitleEarlier issuances changed
DO 19, s. 2022The Department of Education Merit Selection Plan34
DO 7, s. 2023Guidelines on Recruitment, Selection, and Appointment in the Department of Education23
DO 44, s. 2013Moratorium on the Procurement of Supplementary Reading, Reference, and Other Instructional Materials (IMs)8
DO 4, s. 2024Guidelines in the Procurement of Goods Using the Supply and Delivery Strategy and Contract Implementation of Procurement of Goods in the Department of Education7
DO 20, s. 2024Guidelines on the Recruitment, Selection, and Appointment to Higher Teaching Positions7
DO 41, s. 2021Inspection and Acceptance Protocols for the Procurement of Goods in the Department of Education6
DO 51, s. 2017Amended Qualification Standards for Senior High School Teaching Positions in the Technical-Vocational-Livelihood Track and Other Clarifications on the Hiring Guidelines6
DO 45, s. 2022Designating the Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries to Their Strands and Functional Areas of Responsibility5
DO 8, s. 2021Revised Signing Authorities for Administrative and Financial Matters in the Department of Education5
DO 66, s. 2017Implementing Guidelines on the Conduct of Off-Campus Activities5
Orders changed by the most later ordersEach bar counts the later orders that change an order in explicit words, each counted once. An order that only reiterates it isn’t counted.

Source: NASH Reviewer DepEd Orders tracker, from the text of each order

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Orders changed by the most later orders
OrderTitleLater orders that change it
DO 3, s. 2018Basic Education Enrollment Policy7
DO 88, s. 20102010 Revised Manual of Regulations for Private Schools in Basic Education7
DO 67, s. 2016Revised Signing Authorities for Financial Matters6
DO 12, s. 2012Revised Guidelines on the Hiring of Teacher I Positions Based on the Reform Actions in Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA)6
DO 66, s. 2008Signing Authorities for Certain Administrative and Financial Matters in the Central and Field Offices6
DO 20, s. 2017Guidelines on the Implementation of the Educational Service Contracting and Teachers' Salary Subsidy Programs in Junior High School Effective School Year 2017-20185
DO 3, s. 2016Hiring Guidelines for Senior High School (SHS) Teaching Positions Effective School Year (SY) 2016-20175
DO 13, s. 2016Implementing Guidelines on the Direct Release and Use of Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) Allocations of Schools, Including Other Funds Managed by Schools5
DO 66, s. 2007Revised Guidelines on the Appointment and Promotion of Other Teaching, Related Teaching and Non-Teaching Positions5
DO 12, s. 2004Revised Implementing Guidelines for the DepEd Provident Fund5

What a DepEd Order is

DepEd’s policy on making policy, DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015, sets out what each kind of issuance is for. DepEd Orders are the ones that establish policy.

Issuances which contain policies promulgated by the DepEd CO and signed by the Secretary shall be embodied in DepEd Orders when the application of the policies are DepEd-wide or nationwide and in Office Orders when the policies are limited to offices, bureaus, services, centers, in the Central Office.

DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015, paragraph 5(b)

DepEd Order is an issuance confined to announcement of policies or of matters which are of general and reasonably permanent in nature.

DepEd Order No. 30, s. 2019 (DepEd Manual of Style), Definition of Terms
Content
Establishes DepEd policies, and may set out the procedures for carrying them out.
Effect
Mandates or constrains the actions of DepEd’s stakeholders, and creates rights and obligations in furtherance of DepEd’s mandate.
Duration
Usually long-term or permanent, unless rescinded or amended by another DepEd Order.
Scope
Usually concerns DepEd-wide issues and applies DepEd-wide or nationwide.
Issuing authority
Issued from the Central Office and signed by the Secretary as the alter ego of the President.
How many
DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015 counts more than 3,270 DepEd Orders and 12,938 DepEd Memoranda issued from 1971 to 2012.

The traits are Annex 1b of DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015, in its own terms; the count is its first footnote.

DepEd Orders and other DepEd issuances

DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015 names five kinds of DepEd issuance, and the DepEd Manual of Style adds the memorandum with limited circulation. Regional and division offices issue their own memoranda too.

DepEd Order (DO)
Policy for the whole department, meant to last. Signed by the Secretary.
DepEd Memorandum (DM)
Instructions or information, usually temporary: committees and task forces, lists and reports, celebrations, surveys, holidays, examinations, contests and their results, conferences, and reminders of other agencies’ rules. Signed by the Secretary or the concerned Undersecretary.
Memorandum with limited circulation
Like a DepEd Memorandum, but for only a few regions or offices. It carries a strand code instead of a series number, such as DM-OSEC-2015-001, and is not uploaded to the DepEd website.
Office Order (OO)
Like a DepEd Order, but only for Central Office personnel: internal rules and procedures, and notices of personnel actions. Numbered by strand, such as OO-OSEC-2015-001.
Office Memorandum (OM)
Like a DepEd Memorandum, but only for Central Office personnel and staff. Numbered by strand, such as OM-OSEC-2015-001.
DepEd Advisory
Announces programs, scholarships, and activities of organizations outside DepEd, under DepEd Order No. 8, s. 2013. It creates no rights or obligations, endorses nothing, and is no authority to attend on official business.
Regional and Division Memoranda
Issued by Regional Directors and Schools Division Superintendents for their own region or division, often to carry out a national issuance there. Each office numbers its own, such as the Cordillera Administrative Region’s Regional Memorandum No. 158, s. 2020.
Joint circulars
Rules DepEd signs with other agencies, such as the Department of Budget and Management, listed apart on the DepEd website. A DepEd Order can also adopt another agency’s circular.

The strand codes in limited-circulation numbers are OSEC (the Office of the Secretary), FA (Finance and Administration), CI (Curriculum and Instruction), GO (Governance and Operations), LA (Legal and Legislative Affairs), and SM (Strategic Management), as DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015 set them.

How to read an order number

An order’s number and series identify it. Numbering starts again at 1 every calendar year, so the year is part of the name.

DepEd Order No. 013, s. 2024

DepEd Order
The kind of issuance. From 2000 to October 2001 the same orders were DECS Orders.
No. 013
The 13th order of the year. DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015 has the number assigned “following a chronological system that begins with the number one (1) every calendar year”. Orders from 2018 on usually pad it with zeros; 13 and 013 are the same order.
s. 2024
The series: the year whose numbering the order belongs to. The DepEd Manual of Style says the s “stands for series” and is written in lowercase.

The DepEd Manual of Style writes an issuance in full at first mention, DepEd Order No. 8, s. 2013, and short after that, DO 8, s. 2013, without “No.”. This page writes orders the short way in its table.

How a DepEd Order takes effect

Each order says when it takes effect, in a clause near its end. Behind those clauses are the Administrative Code and the Supreme Court’s rule on publication.

  1. Signed and numbered

    The Secretary signs the order, and DepEd assigns it the next number of the year.

  2. Published

    DepEd posts the order on its website. DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015 also calls for publication in the Official Gazette under Executive Order No. 200, s. 1987, which makes laws effective 15 days after publication. In Tañada v. Tuvera (1986), the Supreme Court held that rules implementing a law must be published, while internal rules that regulate only an agency’s own personnel need not be.

  3. Filed with ONAR

    Under Book VII of the Administrative Code of 1987, every agency files three certified copies of each rule with the UP Law Center, whose Office of the National Administrative Register (ONAR) keeps them and publishes them in the National Administrative Register. A rule takes effect 15 days after filing, unless a different date is fixed.

  4. Takes effect

    On the date the order’s effectivity clause sets. Many orders say 15 days after publication or after filing with ONAR; others take effect immediately upon approval and publication on the DepEd website.

  5. Stays in force

    Until a later issuance repeals, rescinds, or modifies it, or, for an order made for one school year, event, or fiscal year, until that period ends. DepEd’s Records Division keeps the original copies.

This Order shall take effect 15 days upon its approval and after publication on the DepEd website and registration with the Office of the National Administrative Register (ONAR) at the University of the Philippines Law Center (UP LC), UP Diliman, Quezon City. It shall remain in force until and unless otherwise repealed, rescinded, or modified accordingly.

DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2024, paragraph 3

How orders are repealed, amended, and supplemented

A later issuance changes an order by saying so. These are the words DepEd uses, from the strongest change to the lightest, with an order from the table that shows each.

Repealed, rescinded, revoked

The order no longer applies. DepEd’s repealing clauses often put the words together: “repealed, rescinded, or modified accordingly”. DepEd Order No. 1, s. 2024 says simply: “DO 023, s. 2023 is revoked.”

Open DO 23, s. 2023 in the table

Superseded

A new order takes the old one’s place, usually on the same subject, so the old one no longer applies.

Partly repealed

Some provisions end and the rest stay. A clause that repeals the provisions of a named order “inconsistent with” the new one is a partial repeal: only the conflicting parts end.

Open DO 1, s. 2023 in the table

Deferred, suspended, under moratorium

The order stays on the books, but carrying it out is paused, until a later issuance lifts the pause. DepEd Order No. 53, s. 2016 lifted the moratorium that DepEd Order No. 44, s. 2013 had put on buying supplementary reading materials.

Open DO 44, s. 2013 in the table

Amended, modified, revised

Part of the order is changed, deleted, or added to, and the rest stays in force. DepEd Order No. 15, s. 2024 “partially amends DO 001, s. 2023, particularly Annex C thereof”, and says its other provisions “shall remain in effect”.

Supplemented, addendum

Something is added to the order without changing what it already says.

Clarified

A later issuance explains how to read the order, without changing its text.

Corrected, corrigendum

An error in the order is fixed. DepEd Order No. 44, s. 2008 says paragraph 4 of DepEd Order No. 41, s. 2008 “is hereby corrected as follows”.

Open DO 41, s. 2008 in the table

Extended

A deadline or period in the order is made longer.

Reiterated

A later issuance repeats that the order still applies. It changes nothing, so the tracker doesn’t count it toward a status.

How long repealed orders lastedFor the 82 orders repealed in whole: the years from each order’s series to the series of the first issuance that repealed it. The median is 6 years. 5 were repealed the same year and 15 the year after, while 11 lasted 15 or more years.

Source: NASH Reviewer DepEd Orders tracker, from the text of each order

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Orders repealed in whole, by years from series to repeal
Years to repealOrders
Same year5
115
26
36
40
57
65
77
81
93
105
113
122
133
143
15 or more11

A declaration in a statute, usually in its repealing clause, that a particular and specific law, identified by its number or title, is repealed is an express repeal; all others are implied repeals.

Mecano v. Commission on Audit, G.R. No. 103982 (1992)

All DepEd Orders and other related issuances, rules and regulations and provisions which are inconsistent with these guidelines are hereby repealed, rescinded, or modified accordingly.

DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015, paragraph 3

The second clause is the kind most orders end with. It names nothing, so the Court in Mecano calls it a general repealing provision, not an express repeal: an earlier order ends under it only where the two truly conflict, and repeals by implication are not favored. That is why the table can’t show every change, and why an order marked No later change found may still have been displaced in part.

From MECS and DECS to DepEd

The department has had four names since 1978, and its orders carried each one. The series you see in older citations follows the name of the day.

  1. 1978: Ministry of Education and Culture

    Created by Presidential Decree No. 1397, as DepEd’s own history of the department records.

  2. 1982: Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (MECS)

    The Education Act of 1982 (Batas Pambansa Blg. 232) vested the supervision and regulation of educational institutions in the MECS. Its orders were MECS Orders: DepEd Order No. 8, s. 2013 still cites MECS Order No. 23, s. 1985.

  3. 1987: Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS)

    Executive Order No. 117, s. 1987, approved January 30, 1987, reorganized the MECS and provided that under a new Constitution with a presidential form of government it would be called the Department of Education, Culture and Sports. The 1987 Constitution was ratified on February 2, 1987. Its orders were DECS Orders.

  4. 2001: Department of Education (DepEd)

    The Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001 (Republic Act No. 9155), dated August 11, 2001, provides: “The Department of Education, Culture and Sports shall henceforth be called the Department of Education.” Its culture and sports functions went to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Philippine Sports Commission.

The numbering carried on through the change. In our collection, the order of October 11, 2001 is DECS Order No. 52, s. 2001; the next, of October 29, is Department of Education Order No. 53; and from November 9 they read DepEd Order, starting with No. 54.

How this tracker was built, and its limits

The tracker is NASH Reviewer’s own compilation from the text of DepEd’s orders. It is useful for finding where to look, not a record you can rely on alone.

  1. The orders

    We downloaded the DepEd Order PDFs from deped.gov.ph and converted each to text. Duplicate files of the same order were merged.

  2. What each order records

    For every order, the tracker records its title, date, a short summary, its topics, whether it is time-bound, and each earlier issuance it names: what it does to it, the part affected, and the exact sentence and page.

  3. Repeals checked again

    Whether a repeal ends a whole order or only part of it is easy to get wrong, so every repeal was checked three more times and the majority answer kept. When the checks disagreed, the change is marked a close call.

  4. Statuses

    Each order takes the strongest change that later orders make to it in explicit words. An order changed only in less explicit wording is marked Possibly changed.

  5. Official links

    Each order links to its PDF on deped.gov.ph where our crawl of the site found the file.

What it can’t tell you

  • Only DepEd Orders are read as the source of a change. A memorandum, a law, or another agency’s rule that changes an order is missed, unless a later order reports it.
  • General clauses that repeal whatever is inconsistent, without naming an order, are not counted.
  • The text conversion and the tracker both make mistakes, most often in order numbers, dates, and long tables and annexes. Very long orders were read in part: their opening and every paragraph that names another issuance or uses change wording.
  • The collection covers orders from 2000 to 2026 and may be missing some. Where the date issued is blank, it couldn’t be confirmed from the order itself.
  • Nothing here is legal advice. Read the official copy, and ask the issuing office or your Schools Division Office when it matters.

Common questions

Short answers drawn from the issuances. Your division office has the final word on your case.

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How to cite this page

Use APA style (7th edition). The date is the day the page was last updated. Where you use a figure or a rule, also cite the law, issuance, or report the page names for it.

Llego, M. A. (2026, November 1). DepEd Orders: what they are, and which have been repealed or amended. NASH Reviewer. https://nash.com.ph/deped-orders

In-text citation: (Llego, 2026). To cite an order itself, cite its official copy on deped.gov.ph rather than this tracker.

To cite DepEd orders and memoranda themselves, see How to Cite DepEd Orders in APA 7 and Write the Abstract.

Sources

The explanations draw on these issuances, laws, and decisions. Each order in the table links to its own official copy. Check the official text before you act on any rule.

  • DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2015Establishment of a Policy Development Process at the Department of Education (April 13, 2015): what DepEd issuances are (paragraph 5), how each type differs (Annex 1b), the numbering system (Annex 5), and publication, filing with ONAR, and safekeeping of DepEd Orders (paragraphs 21 and 23).
  • DepEd Order No. 30, s. 2019 (DepEd Manual of Style)Definitions of the DepEd Order, DepEd Memorandum, Office Order, Office Memorandum, memorandum with limited circulation, and advisory, and how to cite an issuance.
  • DepEd Order No. 8, s. 2013Policy Guidelines on Regulating the Issuance of DepEd Advisories.
  • DepEd Order No. 13, s. 2024Revised Guidelines on the Grant of Vacation Service Credits for Teachers: the effectivity and repealing clauses quoted as examples.
  • Executive Order No. 292, s. 1987 (Administrative Code of 1987)Book VII, Chapter 2: agencies file three certified copies of each rule with the UP Law Center, and a rule takes effect 15 days after filing unless a different date is fixed.
  • Tañada v. Tuvera, G.R. No. L-63915 (December 29, 1986)Rules that implement a law must be published; internal rules that regulate only an agency’s personnel need not be.
  • Mecano v. Commission on Audit, G.R. No. 103982 (December 11, 1992)Express and implied repeal, and why a clause repealing whatever is inconsistent is not an express repeal.
  • Batas Pambansa Blg. 232 (Education Act of 1982)Vested the supervision and regulation of educational institutions in the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.
  • Executive Order No. 117, s. 1987Reorganized the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, to be called the Department of Education, Culture and Sports under a new Constitution with a presidential form of government.
  • Republic Act No. 9155 (Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001)Renamed the Department of Education, Culture and Sports the Department of Education (Section 6).
  • UP Law Center, Office of the National Administrative RegisterThe repository of agency rules filed under the Administrative Code of 1987, and publisher of the National Administrative Register.
  • Department of Education, DepEd Orders (deped.gov.ph)The official copies of the orders in the table, linked from each order where our crawl of the site found its PDF.
  • NASH Reviewer DepEd Orders trackerThe table’s summaries, statuses, and changes, compiled from the text of each order, with every repeal checked three more times. Not an official record.

For an order’s official text, see DepEd Orders on the official DepEd website; for questions about how an order applies to you, ask the DepEd office that issued it or your Schools Division Office. NASH Reviewer is not affiliated with DepEd.