CAMARINES Sur Gov. Luis Raymund Villafuerte backs the Department of Education’s (DepEd) proposal for local government units (LGUs) to take the lead in the construction of school buildings in their respective localities.
Villafuerte noted that LGUs are in a better position to speed up such infrastructure projects to address the worsening classrooms backlog across the country.
At the same time, Villafuerte, himself a former congressman representing Camarines Sur, hailed DepEd’s suggestion even as he sought congressional approval of a pending bill doubling the LGUs’ collection of their School Education Funds (SEFs) to give local governments more money to build classrooms and undertake other education-related projects in their respective areas of jurisdiction.
“I give my full support to this proposal by Secretary Sonny (Angara) for LGUs to assume a more active role in the construction of school buildings in their communities, given that local governments are in a good position to take on this task in their respective localities in order to better help DepEd and the national government close the ever yawning gap in classrooms all over the country,” Villafuerte said in a statement.
