Thanks to audit reports, the public found out that the Department of Education (DepEd), under Vice President Sara Duterte, not only missed its targets but also incurred disallowances, putting the former presidential daughter in the middle of a political firestorm, and highlighting the bureaucratic lapses of an education in crisis.
DepEd built only 192 or just 3% of its 6,379 target classrooms in 2023. Part of Duterte’s confidential funds, or P73 million out of P125 million, was disallowed.