{"id":226254,"date":"2019-08-09T22:19:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T02:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226254"},"modified":"2019-08-09T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T02:19:57","slug":"angara-wants-to-probe-delays-in-basic-education-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/09\/angara-wants-to-probe-delays-in-basic-education-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Angara wants to probe delays in basic education delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A public school in Quezon City. (PNA file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senator Sonny Angara on Friday said he will file a resolution to look into the chronic delays in the procurement and distribution to the end-users of critical basic education facilities and the adverse effects of these on basic education outcomes, including the performance of students.<\/p>\n

Angara, chair of the Senate committee on finance, lamented the \u201cdisappointing\u201d accomplishment report of the Department of Education (DepEd) for 2018, which showed how poorly the agency is performing.<\/p>\n

Citing the Commission on Audit\u2019s (COA) report on DepEd, Angara noted that the agency was supposed to construct 47,000 new classrooms for the year but only managed to complete 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not even 1 percent of the target.\u00a0Tapos may mga nakita pa ang<\/em>\u00a0COA\u00a0na mga<\/em>\u00a0classrooms\u00a0na lagpas dalawang taon na ang<\/em>\u00a0delay\u00a0sa<\/em>\u00a0completion\u00a0at nire<\/em>report\u00a0pa na<\/em>\u00a099 percent completed\u00a0na pero hindi naman pala<\/em>\u00a0(COA found that there are some classrooms that are delayed in completion for over two years even though the agency reported that 99 percent have already been completed),\u201d Angara said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaon taon ang laki ng pondo na binibigay sa<\/em>\u00a0DepEd\u00a0para sa edukasyon ng mga bata tapos masasayang lang ang malaking bahagi nito at makikita na naman natin ang mga estudyanteng walang<\/em>\u00a0classrooms (The DepEd gets the biggest chunk of government funds for the children\u2019s education, but it only goes to waste seeing that students don\u2019t even have enough classrooms),\u201d he added<\/p>\n

The senator said the DepEd was also supposed to distribute 38.5 million textbooks and instructional and learning materials for the students and teachers but was only able to deliver 11.8 million.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that 3.4 million copies of instructional materials worth PHP113.7 million procured from 2014 to 2017 were left rotting inside the warehouses of the DepEd.<\/p>\n

A total of 3,183 science and math packages, which consists of equipment essential to learning under the K to 12 program, was targeted for distribution in 2018, but none of these were delivered to their intended recipients.<\/p>\n

In the DepEd report, the state auditors saw that there were undelivered science and mathematics equipment (SME); unutilized SMEs due to excessive quantities allocated and delivered to schools that did not need them; there was a lack of knowledge and proper training of teachers to use these equipment; and a lack of storage rooms or laboratories to house these items.<\/p>\n

“We are supposed to be showing progress in our educational system, but after seeing these figures, clearly we still have a long way to go,\u201d Angara said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation always gets the biggest share of the government\u2019s funds and rightfully so because this will ensure the country remains competitive with its people as its backbone. So why are we shortchanging our people on this front with such inefficiencies?,\u201d Angara added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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