Curriculum Development (BCD) Bureau of Education Assessment (BEA) Bureau of Human Resources and Organizational Development (BHROD) Bureau of Learning Delivery (BLD) Bureau of Learning Resources (BLR) Bureau of Learner Support Service (BLSS) Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service (DRRMS) External Partnerships Service (EPS) Finance Service (FS) Information and Communications Technology Service (ICTS) Legal Service (LS) National Educators' Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) Planning Service (PS) Procurement Service (PROCS) Project Management Service (PMS) Public Affairs Service (PAS) Attached agencies The following agencies, councils and schools are attached to DepEd for policy and program coordination: Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education Instructional Materials Council (IMC) National Academy of Sports (NAS) National Book Development Board (NBDB) National Council for Children's Television (NCCT) National Museum of the Philippines National Science Teaching Instrumentation Center (NSTIC) Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is now attached to the Office of the President, while the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is now attached to the Department of Trade and Industry. Controversies Christmas ham and cheese bid The Department of Education drew flak online in November 2020 for an invitation for bidding on its website for the supply and delivery of ham and cheese for the DepEd Central Office worth . The invitation read that the cost is equivalent to 4,260 hams and 2,160 cheese supplies for the annual Christmas celebration of the central office. Netizens criticized the bidding as ill-timed as it was posted during the onset of Typhoon Rolly and Typhoon Ulysses, which at the time, caused extensive damage and casualties to the affected areas. In response, the department has since canceled and retracted the bidding and pledged to reallocate the funds to typhoon relief efforts and for their COVID-19 response. Self-learning modules controversy Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines in early 2020, the Department of Education shifted schools into distant learning with the use of online and printed self-learning modules later that year. However, several of these modules were found to have incorrect and questionable content. In August 2020, a DepEd TV episode used for a test broadcast contained grammatical errors in the sample questionnaire for a Grade 8 English course. Later in October, a math problem on DepEd TV had also gone viral for having an incorrect solution, wherein the solution asked students to divide by zero. Controversial