ALBAY Rep. Joey Salceda has filed a measure that will establish the National Education Infrastructure Audit.

House Bill 674 or the proposed Building Better Schools Act mandates the yearly conduct of a National Education Infrastructure Audit to assess the state of structures in schools, assess the delivery of locally and nationally funded structures in schools, recommend schools structures for repair or condemnation and establish metrics to perform the audit.

Salceda said that while the Philippines expands its government revenues to accommodate the growing need for government programs, including education, there is a clear need to address the disparities in public school facilities in the country, even with limited public resources.

“There is this need to spend public resources more efficiently and conduct a sort of triage of the country’s need for improved school facilities,” he said.

Under the measure, the infrastructure audit will be overseen jointly by the Department of Education and the Commission on Audit.

The measure also mandates each school divsion and the COA to create a team to conduct the audit in all schools within the division.