Just around half of DepEd’s target number of classrooms built in 2023A photo shared by Dugong Elementary School in Bucay, Abra shows the extent of the damage wrought by the tremor to their building on July 27, 2022. MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education fell short of its target for classroom construction in 2023, building only around 3,600 new classrooms out of the planned 6,300, based on figures shared by Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Thursday. Duterte said during her second DepEd Basic Education Report (BER) that the education department constructed 3,673 new classrooms in 2023. This represents just 58% of DepEd’s target number of new classrooms in 2023 (6,379), which Duterte announced during last year’s BER and which Marcos announced in his second State of the Nation Address. Duterte said on Thursday that over 6,200 classrooms are in “various stages of construction” while 800 others are still in the procurement stage.

Source: Philippine Star January 25, 2024 23:58 UTC