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With Pampanga students losing 26 school days to flooding and confusing, conflicting suspension announcements piling up nationwide, Malacañang is fast-tracking an executive order requiring barangay- and municipality-level clarity — here's what parents and students should expect.

The Office of Civil Defense says storms and the southwest monsoon have damaged ₱3.5 billion in infrastructure and ₱1.42 billion in agriculture and displaced 5.39 million people, as government aid disbursed so far — ₱796.98 million — covers a fraction of the losses and questions persist over the ₱1.94-trillion spent on flood control since 2011.