To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where: 1) Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment; 2) Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner; 3) Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to happen; and 4) Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility for developing lifelong learners.