“The reported backlog of 40,000 classrooms is unjustifiable. At a cost of P500,000 per classroom, it would cost only P20 billion to build everything. That's only one year's income of PAGCOR. I am incredulous how the future of millions of Filipino children has been irretrievably lost because of the insatiable greed of those in power.”

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About Francis Escudero

Filipino politician and lawyer

Francis Joseph “Chiz” Guevara Escudero is a Filipino politician and lawyer. He has served as a senator of the Philippines since 2022, after an earlier Senate term from 2007 to 2019, and he was the 31st president of the Senate from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Nationalist People's Coalition, Escudero has been a visible figure in Philippine national politics for many years. He ran for vice president in 2016 as Grace Poe’s running mate, but did not win.

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