DPWH faces over 100 complaints, 1,000 unusable classrooms

Updated Sun, September 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM Published Thu, September 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM

Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon has received over 100 complaints regarding ghost or substandard projects.

The Department of Education (DepEd) has launched an audit after finding over 1,000 classrooms built by the DPWH that are incomplete and unusable.

These classrooms, each costing between P2.5 and P3.7 million, were bid out by the DPWH using DepEd's budget, and the agency is verifying if they were fully paid for.

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines criticized the DPWH for the unfinished classrooms, highlighting that this exacerbates the existing classroom shortage.

ACT chairman Vladimer Quetua decried the government's failure to address the classroom crisis, stating that billions of pesos were wasted in corrupt projects.

Quetua warned that overcrowding and multiple shifts in schools remain significant barriers to improved learning outcomes due to the lack of usable classrooms.

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