THE Department of Education has received a P8.4 billion grant from the Australian government which will be used to address basic education problems and for the implementation of the K-to-12 program.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro thanked the Australian government for its generosity and said the Philippine government will put up a counterpart fund worth P1 billion to be used in the implementation of the DepEd’s Basic Education Sector Transformation program. The six-year project aims to provide education intervention in Regions 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and the National Capital Region.

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