A few days before his second State of the nation address, an advocacy group on Friday urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to treat education as a national priority, more than infrastructure development and tourism campaigns. | zacariansINQ
Salazar emphasized the need to fix the country’s “weak education governance system” to address problems brought by decades of neglect across different administrations.
He also cited the need to create a long-term education agenda, as well as develop efficient inter-agency coordination to ensure sustainability in education plans.“We must make education and nutrition our national concern and national priority. If we focus on developing our people first, many of our problems—from corruption to poverty, to low productivity to joblessness—will be easier to solve,” Salazar pointed out.
“To make education reforms happen…we must set aside political calculations in choosing what is right and what is correct for our children,” Salazar added. “We hope that our leaders listen to the recommendations of experts and of stakeholders from the ground. From there, we will be able to derive better solutions that are more sustainable and evidence-based that have a lasting impact on the lives of many Filipinos,” said Salazar.
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