CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Department of Education (DepEd)-Cagayan de Oro Division said this city lacks around 600 classrooms. THE West City Central School in Barangay Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, on Thursday, August 31. (Franck Dick Rosete) Roy Angelo Gazo, superintendent of the Cagayan de Oro...
Unmet targets, combined with emerging needs, continue to contribute to the growing backlog in basic education resources particularly classrooms and teachers. A classroom at Batasan National High School in Quezon City was divided into two to address the issue of classroom shortage. (Photo:...
The Department of Education (DepEd) underscored the importance of the “whole-of-society approach” to address one of the most pressing issues confronting Philippine basic education shortage of classrooms and other school facilities. DepEd / MB Visual Content Group During the National Planning...
To address gaps in basic education facilities nationwide, the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) renewed their partnership in strengthening the School Building Program (SBP). (Photo from DepEd) DepEd Undersecretary for School Infrastructure and...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) should expedite the construction of classrooms and school buildings nationwide as it had a P3.1-billion allocated under its School Buildign Program for the current year. At the continuation of the Senate’s deliberation on the P5.268-trillion...
The inadequate number of classrooms in the Philippines was further reduced due to the Department of Education’s (DepEd) failure to reconstruct and repair typhoon-damaged schools, said Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) on Tuesday, Aug. 16. The teachers’ group said that several classrooms in...
