If relief supplies can be prepositioned in places near disaster-prone areas, why not school equipment and textbooks too? That’s why it has started negotiating witth the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and Malacañang for the restoration of its P650-million Quick Response Fund (QRF). Talking with reporters later, Briones said that she had brought up the matter during the Cabinet meeting on Monday night. She added that DepEd would have another dialogue with Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to push for the return of the QRF. The DepEd had received P1 billion of the QRF in 2015.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 13, 2017 19:13 UTC