EDITORIAL - A new DepEd chief

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Finally, a new secretary of education. The selection of Sen. Sonny Angara as the replacement of Vice President Sara Duterte in the Department of Education has been met with generally positive reactions, even from militant teachers’ groups. Sparring with teachers had been one of the distractions for Duterte in her two years as DepEd chief.

Philippine education is in the intensive care unit. Angara will have to hit the ground running to deal with the multitude of problems besetting basic education, which is the jurisdiction of DepEd. He said a priority task assigned to him by President Marcos is to improve the performance of Filipino learners in the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Key factors affecting the quality of education are outside his mandate, starting with poverty. Weak learning capability starts at conception, with the malnutrition and undernutrition that plague expectant mothers in poor households. Experts have warned that malnutrition and undernourishment lead to physical and mental stunting. The DepEd is working with other agencies for supplemental feeding programs and improved health care particularly for early childhood learners.

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