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