MANILA, April 15 -- The Department of Education (DepEd) released Monday the guidelines on alternate uniforms for both teaching and non-teaching personnel amid sweltering temperatures across the country.

In a Facebook post, the DepEd announced that teachers and other staff can use select polo shirts as more comfortable uniforms when reporting to their workstations.

According to the DepEd Memorandum DM-OUHROD-2024-0662 dated April 11, these include existing collared DepEd polo shirts which were previously used in "Brigada Eskwela, Palarong Pambansa, Oplan Balik Eskwela, and Regional/ Division/ Schools Conference," among others.

Besides previously used designs, the DepEd also allowed the use of white polo shirts with the DepEd and MATATAG...