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DepEd to get lion's share of 2014 nat'l budgetJuly 17, 2013 8:38pm 

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The Department of Education will again receive the largest share of the national budget next year,

with P336.9 billion or nearly 15 percent of the total P2.268 trillion fund to be allotted to it, Budget

Secretary Florencio Abad said Wednesday.

The amount will be 14.8 percent more than the P293.4 billion the department is programmed to

receive this year, said Abad.

The Budget chief added that the money will be used to cover the basic education needs of at least

16,862,916 students in the kindergarten, elementary and secondary school levels.

It will also be used to continue the construction and rehabilitation of classrooms and water and

sanitation facilities, among other expenditures. About P8.6 billion will be allocated for the creation of

33,194 teaching positions nationwide.

The Department of Public Works and Highways will receive the next largest share of the 2014

budget. It is set to receive P213.5 billion next year, 40 percent more than the P152.4 billion it will

receive this year. Part of the funds will be used for flood control projects and to build and rehabilitate

roads.

Other departments and their allocations include:

Department of Interior and Local Government: P135.4 billion,

Department of National Defense: P123.1 billion,

Department of Health: P87.1 billion,

Department of Agriculture: P80.7 billion,

Department of Social Welfare and Development: P78.9 billion,

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Department of Transportation and Communications: P48.7 billion,

Department of Environment and Natural Resources: P23.9 billion, and

Department of Agrarian Reform: P20.4 billion.— BM, GMA News 

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DepEd’s proposed 2014 budget 

‘biggest in history’ BY JEE Y. GERONIMO 

POSTED ON 07/30/2013 5:35 PM | UPDATED 07/30/2013 6:15 PM

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) marked the proposed 2014 basic

education budget as its biggest budget allocation in history.

Education Assistant Secretary Jesus Mateo on Tuesday, July 30 said the P335.4 billion allotted by

the Department of Budget and Management’s (DBM) National Expenditure Program increased from

the proposed P334.21 billion.

The budget also increased 14.4%, or 42.1 billion more than this year’s P293.3 billion budget

allocation. The increase is focused on learning resources, as well as classrooms, chairs and school

facilities.

READ: 2014 budget focus: DepEd, DPWH, DILG 

More classrooms, libraries 

Even the target number of new classrooms for next year is the biggest in history, Mateo confirmed

with Rappler.

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto earlier said the number of “rooms to be built…is by far

the biggest in history.” 

Next year, Mateo said, 43,183 new classrooms will be built to respond not only to increments posed

by a new school year, but also to the need of the K to 12 program’s senior high school curriculum.  

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The department will start preparing for the first batch of Grade 11 or Junior High School students in

2016 as early as next year.

Aside from the new classrooms, 9,502 existing ones will be repaired, and 1.59 million new

classroom seats will be created.

Mateo added that 10 library hubs will be “constructed, furnished and given books in 2014”, in

addition to 213 existing ones in the country.

Competent teachers 

For 2014, 33,194 new teachers and 1,500 new teaching-related staff will be hired by the department.

Recto said he hoped the department would use “competence and not connection” in hiring new

teachers.

But Mateo said this has been their practice since 2012, when they tightened the hiring policy as per

DepEd Order No. 12 series of 2012.

DepEd's budget falls under the “education, culture and manpower” sector, along with Technical

Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and state universities and colleges (SUCs).

This sector has been alloted a budget of P389.5 billion for 2014.

Recto said the budget will close manpower and equipment gaps in public schools, in a bid to “[catch]

up with existing backlogs and [frontload] for future needs.”  - Rappler.com 

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