High-ranking members of the national government met with mayors and representatives from the cities of Bacolod, Escalante, Roxas, Iriga, Legazpi, and Iloilo in an online policy dialogue organized by the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) to discuss the proposed amendments to the DepEd-DBM-DILG Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) No. 1, s. 2017 or the Revised Guidelines on the use of the Special Education Fund (SEF) for local governments.