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Marcos vows 40K new classrooms before end of his term
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has committed to building 40,000 additional classrooms before the end of his term as part of a major infrastructure push.
The government has already built nearly 22,000 classrooms in the past three years and will ramp up construction in partnership with the private sector.
The pledge aims to reduce the country's longstanding classroom backlog, which has forced many schools to conduct double or even triple shifts.
Marcos urged Congress to provide consistent and sufficient funding for the Department of Education's school infrastructure program.
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