THE DEPARTMENT of Education will ask for a budget of P800 billion for 2023, Undersecretary Epimaco Densing III said.

Densing said that the proposal will be discussed with the Department of Budget.

He said that a big bulk of the budget will be used for the compensation of teachers.

If approved, the P800 billion will be nearly 27 percent higher than this year’s P629.8 billion budget.

“The major investment should be ensuring that our learners improve in their standards, quality of education is key and part of this is really to improve the teaching standards or investing in the training of our teaching personnel specifically of our teachers,” he said.

The DepEd seeks to enhance access to education and improve educational standards.