A Commission on Audit report shows the Department of Education, under the leadership of Vice President Sara Duterte, was able to build only 192, or just 3%, of the 6,379 target classrooms in 2023.
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00:00A Commission on Audit report shows the Department of Education, under the leadership of Vice
00:04President Sara Duterte, was able to build only 192 or just 3 percent of the 6,379 target
00:11classrooms in 2023.
00:134,391 classrooms are still under construction and 550 have yet to undergo various stages
00:19of procurement.
00:21Of 7,550 classrooms to be repaired, only 208 were completed.
00:26State auditors also flag only 3 of the 88 last-mile schools were completed.
00:31LMS is a program dedicated to schools in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas.
00:37The government allocated P15 billion for classroom construction in 2023.
00:42House Appropriation Senior Vice Chairperson Stella Kimbo decries the slow utilization
00:47of regular funds of the DepEd under Duterte.
00:49It means that the spending is slow and there are still funds left.
00:55So wasted funds, wasted time.