ACT to admin: Prioritize education over Cha-cha, globe-trotting, NTF-Elcac

The administration should focus on education, not things like Charter change, foreign trips, confidential and intelligence funds, or the NTF-Elcac, according to House Deputy Minority Rep. France Castro. | JMangaluzINQ

According to Castro, the government has only allotted the equivalent of 3 percent of the country’s GDP for education in the 2023 national budget.

Budget shortages have caused the Department of Education, headed by Vice President Sara Duterte, to ask for donations due to classroom backlogs, said the legislator.“While the initiative of donors, both private and foreign, are welcome, the Marcos-Duterte administration must not rely on these and make it their strategy to beg for donations for our children because it is one of the government’s primary duties to fund the education of Filipino children,” said Castro.

Castro said that House Bill 1783, or the Education as Priority in the National Appropriations Act, filed by the Makabayan bloc, would address the need to put education at the forefront of the national budget. “I hope that the Marcos-Duterte administration would heed our call in behalf of the education sector to increase the budget for education to 6 percent of the GDP and support HB 1783, to address the classroom backlogs and substantially increase the salaries of our teachers. It is only by doing this that can we effectively solve the learning crisis,” said Castro.

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