Gov’t to build 14,000 classrooms

MANILA, Philippines?Some 14,000 new classrooms will be built and about 300,000 hectares of farmlands distributed to small farmers next year under the P1.6-trillion national budget signed by President Aquino on Monday. The new classrooms to be built by the Department of Education (DepEd) represent roughly 11 percent of the current shortage in public schools nationwide. DepEd chief engineer Oliver Hernandez said the department had been given a P12.04-billion fund for the construction of schools in the coming year, four times the P3-billion allocation this year. The fund, approved by Mr. Aquino along with the P207-billion DepEd budget, will enable the DepEd to address a backlog of classrooms…

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Gov’t to build 14,000 classrooms