1.  Close the classroom gap

•  Sustain the DepEd School Building Program through the Basic Education Facilities Fund under the GAA and other funding sources.

•  Provide continuing financial support for the construction of schoolbuildings in areas with acute shortages and for other programs under the Basic Education Facilities Fund; dilapidated or unusable school buildings, and those damaged by fire and other natural hazards, should also be rebuilt;

•  Explore various procurement modalities under the government's PPP Program;

•  Explore NG-LGU matching schemes for school building construction. Under this scheme, every school building constructed by NG in a certain area will be matched by the concerned LGU with the same number;

•  Maximize classroom use of through class-shifts. The adoption of double-shift classes must be continued as long as it is needed in order to alleviate overcrowding in classrooms and to support efforts at addressing the classroom gap; and

•  Explore the use of indigenous and recyclable materials as environment-friendly alternatives to reduce the cost of building classrooms.