2019–2020 has reached 3,194,035, and 3,236,827 for the school year 2020-2021.170 Figures from TESDA showed a stark decrease in youth enrollment, from 1,081,340 in 2018, 1,155,751 in 2019 to 309,223 in 2020, and 345,181 in 2021.171 However, a participant from DepEd National Capital Region shares that public school enrollment has improved from 2.01 million in 2021 to 2.1 million in 2022. Similarly, a participant from the School Division in Iloilo notes an influx of enrollees to public schools due to COVID-19, adding that they saw an almost 5% increase of enrollees last school year. This school year, 2021–2022, they observe another increase in SHS enrollees, totaling 15,465 in public schools and 10,456 in private schools. These numbers add up to the 10,254,650 enrollees in the formal basic education for the same school year based on the August 2021 data of DepEd, which is lower than the 26.2 million recorded number of enrollees for SY 2020-2021.172 Moreover, a total of 3,666 learners are enrolled in Iloilo’s ALS, while a total of 52,245 are enrolled nationwide, which is lower than the 599,365 total enrollees in the ALS in the previous school year.173 121. Absence of midterm report. Republic Act No. 10533 mandates the government to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the K to 12 program, as well as release a midterm report by the end of School Year 2014-2015. However, no such report has been published officially on the DepEd website and shared to the Commission on Human Rights during the conduct of its consultations. The monitoring report is relevant to compare the progress at every evaluation interval, determine whether the outcomes are met, and whether the beneficiaries really have benefited from the law. Youth Availability of SHS Programs 122. Students’ choices of academic track are limited by the availability of SHS programs in schools. Youth participants mention that because choices of academic tracks in some schools are limited, students are forced to take whatever academic track or program is available in their school, even if it is not their preferred choice. Access is critical because, as one participant from DepEd explains, if a school nearby a student’s residence only offers TVL and general academics and the student cannot make any other choice because of limited access to transportation, the student will most likely choose to enroll in either academics or TVL. Moreover, while schools can train students in livelihood because they want to engage in business, they cannot do so because their families or parents do not have the capital for entrepreneurship. Overlapping courses of SHS and college programs 170 Department of Education, Datasets, supra note 18. TESDA ICTO data Nov 2021: full and partial school closures in 2020 and 2021 due to IATF community quarantine guidelines impacted skills training. 172 Merlina Hernando-Malipot, DepEd records 10.2M enrollees in formal, 52K learners in ALS for SY 2021-2022, MANILA BULLETIN, Aug. 27, 2021, available at https://mb.com.ph/2021/08/27/deped-records-10-2m-enrollees-in-formal-52klearners-in-als-for-sy-2021-2022/ (last accessed June 21, 2022). 173 Id. 171 48