DepEd prioritizes first-time recipients in rollout of 231,725 teacher laptops
Schools that have not received laptops under the program go first.
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DepEd's laptops or teachers rollout
The Department of Education (DepEd) has released guidelines on choosing which public school teachers will get 231,725 newly purchased laptops.
According to the department, distribution officially begins on November 9.
Education Secretary Sonny Angara said the rules under the Laptops for Teachers (L4T) initiative are meant to direct the limited supply to teachers who need a laptop the most.
Of the units, 169,008 are Mac-based, and 62,717 are Windows-based, all for teachers. DepEd also bought 3,646 MacBook Neo units for administrative officers.
DepEd said competitive public bidding lowered costs significantly and produced packages that come with built-in productivity tools, delivery nationwide, professional training, and a five-year extended warranty.
Units were distributed among regions, divisions, and schools in proportion to their teacher counts, using a structured formula. The first to receive laptops will be schools that have not been L4T recipients before. L4T is a component of the DepEd Computerization Program.
In those schools, teachers who have not been given a laptop through another government program, a local government unit, or a donation to the school may qualify. Within each school, teachers with the greatest need for a working device come first, judged by their current access to gadgets, teaching duties, and digital readiness.
Eligible teachers must hold an active teaching assignment and have an active DepEd email with multi-factor authentication turned on. They must also not have a working government- or school-issued laptop received from January 1, 2023 to November 6, 2026.
Owning a personal laptop or sharing equipment does not rule a teacher out.
If there are more eligible teachers than laptops, school heads must rank them in three tiers.
The first tier is teachers with no government laptop who are actively leading educational technology work, such as ICT coordinators, EdTech champions, and Khan Academy teachers. A title without active involvement does not qualify.
The second tier is every other eligible teacher who has no individual laptop. The third tier is eligible teachers who received laptops before but whose units were ruined by calamities, declared unserviceable, or taken in theft or robbery.
Seniority and non-teaching duties carry no priority.
If a tier has more teachers than the remaining units, schools must draw lots in front of witnesses, either by hand or through the Teacher Assignment for Laptop Allocation (TALA) system.
School heads and property custodians have until November 15 to finalize recipient lists on the TALA platform at tala.deped.gov.ph.
DepEd reminded recipients that the laptops remain government property. Teachers who are promoted or moved outside the teaching track must hand back their devices so they can be reassigned.
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