Governance and Challenges Among Schools in Division of Zamboanga del Norte Amidst COVID-19

Abstract

School governance has no escape from the unprecedented COVID-19, urging the education system to adopt several approaches to survive its programs and projects. The array of adjustments to favor the modular approach has been wisely decided to deliver across the system. Notwithstanding, this modality had positively accepted due to its efficacy, the implementation of programs and projects in addition to academic aspect have been subjected to study. Public schools, both elementary secondary and senior high schools in Zamboanga del Norte, were the coverage wherein the survey tools were sent to the respondents composed of teachers, school heads, and principals through the Online platform. Fully Implemented with a x̅= 3.47 for Health Programs and DRRM, both with a mean 3.47, and implemented with a x̅=3.10 for sports and scouting, and a x̅= 2.28 for operations and other programs and activities. Challenges marked a level of x̅ =3.50 with a VD of Agree. Socio-demographic profiles such as sex, age, and length of service fail to reject the null hypotheses of no significant relationship. But, schools and positions rejected the null hypotheses of no significant relationship. Among the socio-demographic profiles, only the school exhibited the rejection of the hypothesis, and evidence suggested that these variables with the challenges were significantly related. Governance and challenges have remarkably shown a significant relationship as calculated through the Spearman Rank Order Correlation Coefficient r_s, (r_s(10) = .973, p = .000. In the time of the pandemic, the schools’ implementation of programs and projects was quite satisfying even though challenges were relatively high and unarguably influence the actual delivery of services.