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Bella Cariaso - The Philippine Star
January 21, 2026 | 12:00am
Education Secretary Sonny Angara, with General Trias City Mayor Luis Ferrer IV, Congressman Antonio Ferrer and Vice Mayor Jonas Labuguen, yesterday leads the ribbon cutting, blessing and unveiling of the marker of the newly erected four-story, 16 classroom building funded by the local government at Santiago Elementary School in General Trias City.
Edd Gumban
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) will implement a “build now, pay later” scheme under the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme to help address the country’s estimated shortage of 165,000 classrooms.
In a radio interview, DepEd Undersecretary for Strategic Management Ronald Mendoza said the arrangement will be carried out under Phase 3 of the Public-Private Partnership for School Infrastructure Project (PSIP), where the government will pay for the classrooms over a 10-year period after their completion and turnover to DepEd.
“We need 165,000 classrooms, and we did not include in that figure classrooms that are destroyed every year because of earthquakes and other disasters,” Mendoza said.
The Phase 3 of the PSIP is a P105.7-billion program aimed at accelerating classroom construction while strengthening governance and oversight in school infrastructure projects.
“Our target is to build 105,000 classrooms using PPP. The main advantage… is that classrooms will be built, but we will pay for them over the span of 10 years,” Mendoza said.
According to Mendoza, the PPP rollout will be done in stages, with Phase 3 serving as the initial tranche.
Aside from the initial 16,000 classrooms, at least 80,000 more classrooms are expected to be constructed under the PPP scheme.
Yesterday, Education Secretary Sonny Angara led the turnover of a four-story, 16-classroom school building at Santiago Elementary School in General Trias City, Cavite.
Angara said the newly completed building underscores the administration’s push to deliver tangible improvements at the school level, particularly in fast-growing areas such as General Trias City, where rising enrollment has resulted in overcrowded classrooms and operational strain.
