MANILA, Feb. 14 -- The Department of Education (DepEd) has committed to revisit and intensify its comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in a bid to address the high teenage pregnancy cases among basic education learners.

DepEd Assistant Secretary Alma Ruby Torio said the CSE is integrated in various learning areas such as values education, good manners and right conduct, health and technology and livelihood.

"For now, we have flexible options for our learners. One of which is the provision of alternative learning delivery mode as well as the appropriate learning delivery for those learners who are in special circumstances," Torio told senators during the Committee on Basic Education public hearing.

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, who cha...