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DepEd's Project LIGTAS+ aims for school-level class suspensions, resumptions

GMA News reports on how LIGTAS+ is intended to move class suspension and resumption calls from broad area-wide declarations to school-level, data-based decisions.

GMA News Online
DepEd officials being walked through the LIGTAS+ platform on laptops at the nationwide launch

Summary

GMA News covers the launch of Project LIGTAS+ and its aim of enabling more localized decisions on class suspensions and resumptions. DepEd Undersecretary Malcolm Garma said the platform is meant to deliver "more granular data, more science-based, more data-based decision-making" by consolidating hazard information and school-level risk data, so calls can be made per school rather than across an entire area.

The report notes that LIGTAS+ was developed with the Education Center for AI Research to strengthen disaster preparedness and reduce learning disruption.

Details

This is external press coverage. Read the full story at GMA News Online via the link above.

Related Work

See the LIGTAS+ project write-up and the launch note in Updates for ECAIR's own account of the rollout.