DepEd to reap benefits of realigned flood control funds

The Department of Education (DepEd) vowed to fully utilize its proposed budget, including whatever funds it will get from flood control realignments, to fund the various needs of the agency for next year, Secretary Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said on Tuesday, September 16.

- By HANNAH L. TORREGOZA

Angara made this assurance during the Senate Finance subcommittee hearing on the proposed 2026 budget of the DepEd and its attached agencies, after presenting the proposed budget of the agency for 2026, which is pegged at P928.52 billion.

Sen. Loren Legarda had asked the DepEd chief how it intends to utilize the budget it will get from realignments from flood control projects identified in the proposed National Expenditure Program (NEP) which the Executive department wants to be realigned for the construction of more classrooms.

Legarda asked Angara if the agency has already checked how much it would get, and if it has the absorptive capacity to use all the funds, and the secretary responded in the affirmative.