ICYMI: Progressive lawmakers at the House of Representatives formally sought an investigation into the fire sale in retail and online stores of Department of Education laptops intended for public school teachers.
“An investigation is important because our teachers badly need the laptops now. The DepEd was already once tricked into procuring overpriced laptops, and now, corrupt individuals in DepEd are making a profit out of it,” House deputy minority leader France Castro said in Filipino.
But state auditors found that the DepEd under the Duterte administration failed to meet their targets from 2018 to 2020.
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