Tag page - DepEd classroom shortage 2025

The Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday, October 30, said it is exploring the leasing of closed private schools and other idle properties to help ease the country’s classroom shortage, which reached 165,000 classrooms nationwide in 2022. In partnership with the Student First Coalition...

The Department of Education (DepEd) is rallying support from both the public and private sectors to help bridge the country’s classroom shortage through a collaboration that enables Filipinos to contribute to school-building efforts with their everyday purchases. “Let us keep planting these...

With School Year (SY) 2025–2026 set to begin on June 16, the Department of Education (DepEd) is ramping up efforts to address infrastructure backlogs, hire new teachers, and implement curriculum reforms amid persistent challenges in the Philippine education system. In a media interview this week,...