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The Department of Education (DepEd) is confident the classrooms shortage in the country would be solved by 2014.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro said over P18 billion of the proposed P238.8 billion DepEd budget would go to the construction and repair of 15,000 classrooms, and the installation of 25,000 sanitation facilities.

At present, the DepEd lacks 66,800 classrooms.

Luistro said 30,000 more classrooms would be constructed through public-private partnerships.

“By 2014, we will only construct (classrooms) based on expected increase in student population,” Luistro said.

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Tags: classroom shortage , Department of Education , DepEd budget , Education Secretary Armin Luistro , public-private partnerships

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  • Anonymous

    Enough classrooms by 2014 with budget cuts in education?  Got to believe in magic. Siguro nga dahil si PeNoy ay ibabagsak na ng mga sundalo. Coup d tat now na !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Indeed, if “enough classrooms seen”, why aren’t they there? – or had they been there and gone again?

  • Anonymous

    That’s what Im saying.

    9 years ni arroyo nag iwan ng 50,000 classroom shortage.

    No doubt, with the increase in the education budget in 2012 and onwards, this govt can do it.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how they will calculate the expected increase of student population:
    * based on increasing population?
    * based upon expected incapacity of parents to afford schooling?
    * based upon the trend of private students migrating to public schools due to higher tuition fees of private schools?

    I am skeptical because if their statistical history is still flawed, there will still be shortages.  Why else is there a 66,000 backlog?  It might be an 80,000 backlog.  They also have to tackle their own kind of corruption.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YY3XETSE5H44TCHOVCBGGBTW34 rey

    sana lang kahit 15000 na lang basta hindi sub-standard materials ang gagamitin at tsaka huwag ng bawasan ng porsyento ng mga pumipirma sa kontrata. mapanganib kung ganito ang mangyayari.

  • Anonymous

    Kahit nga lang 14,999 basta lang totoo at hindi kuwentong bakla.

  • Anonymous

    There was no increase in the education budget for 2012.  Budget for education were reduced by A Bad Secretary and PeNoy to be incorporated in their hoarded funds for pork barrel and insurance funds after their term expire in 2016.  But with the coup d tat brewing and just around the corner, he he he he usyami ang balak nila. Ibagsak na sila

  • http://twitter.com/grandpaber mel bercel

    the people who manage our national school system are in denial. they want only to project the good but not the bad or the ugly. in order to be cured, one has to admit that one is sick first. our educational system is sick. it suffers from school room deficiency, teacher insuficiency, sectoral management swelling, student resource constriction, etc. where are the schools, the teachers, teacher and student support in the remote areas? if we have enough school rooms, our children need not commute long distance to go to school. our children should be able to walk from home to school. a good rule of the thumb walking distance is two to three kilometers, and walking is healthy and good exercise. where are the mass-cheaply-produced student workbooks and reading materials (books) to be given to each of the students? why can’t we contract a publisher that will print the workbooks and the reading materials at the cheapest cost? or if we can’t find one, why can’t we create a national  public school  printing office to mass produce these resources? and for uniformity of teaching topics and resources, why can’t our teacher/supervisors write and create them so there will be no copyright violations? when i was going to school, there were  analog mimeographing machines that were used to do this. we are now in digital and automation age and it should be a lot easier. think not of the cost but the number of jobs it will create and education service it will enhance. Public education is a right (private education is a privilege) and a service provided to our youth and should not be commercialized. we should not  follow the  greedy public utilities providers whose interest is just to enrich themselves where they force their customers to pay for all the actions they do even their ‘kapalpakan’…we in the education business are educators, and our goal is to develop the young into good productive citizens so we will have a happy and peaceful philippines.

  • http://twitter.com/bmarana Brian Marana

    Sorry, watch you grammar.  You use the verb “would” three times in the article.  In all three instances, you should be using “will.”  

  • http://twitter.com/bmarana Brian Marana

    Just a small grammar point.  You should be using “will,” not “would.”

  • Anonymous

    maganda ito!!! maganda ang kanilang goals!!! sana tuloy tuloy na ito. may tiwala ako kay armin luistro. alam ko na hindi sya corrupt!!! mas may tiwala ako sa kanya kesa kay andrew gonzales… sumalangit nawa ang kanyang kaluluwa… may popular si andrew pero sa totoo lang mas mahusay na educational administrator si armin luistro. alam ko ito dahil magtrabaho ako sa la salle dati. si andrew ay pinapatulan at nilalagay ang pangalan as editor kahit na sa mga pipitsuging libro na maraming ‘errors’ basta lang kumita!!! 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_K2RI3LJVGNNED3XPMG7HVMIIO4 Herbert

    LOL! Ilang presidente na nagsabi ng ganyan… Lumang tugtugin.

  • Anonymous

    You better the budget approved by the House. The education budget increased for 2012.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what Im saying.

    9 years ni arroyo nag iwan ng 60,000 classroom shortage.

    No doubt, with the increase in the education budget in 2012 and onwards, this govt can do it.

  • Nic Legaspi

    This is good news! As long as the government put in plans to keep our youth in school, then our students will reap the rewards in the future. Education must always be one of the top priorities for the government.

  • Anonymous

    nah..siguraduhin nyo lang….kakastress yung mag expect sa wala!

  • John Tamad

    Sarap maniwala, pero sawa na ko sa kasinungalingan nyo e.

  • Anonymous

    …As long as the deped doesn’t get distracted by another scam-dal …. like the noodles, otoscopes, shampoo, needles, …etc…etc..

  • Anonymous

    C’mon guys, give the lass a break; don’t you see why she would rather use the subjunctive?

  • Anonymous

    ” where are the mass-cheaply-produced student workbooks and reading
    materials (books) to be given to each of the students? why can’t we
    contract a publisher that will print the workbooks and the reading
    materials at the cheapest cost?”

    Another thing about that is the bad grammar in those textbooks.  Then they got mad at the person who pointed it out. 



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