House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro has expressed her relief over Vice President Sara Duterte’s resignation as Secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd).
In a statement on Wednesday, June 19, Castro couldn’t resist taking a dig at the Vice President as the latter stepped down from her role as Education Secretary.
“Sa wakas ay nag-resign na din sa DepEd si VP Sara. Sana ay mas maaga niya ito ginawa para makapaglagay ng isang kalihim ng DepEd na galing talaga sa sektor ng edukasyon at alam ang kanyang ginagawa,” Castro said.
“Nasayang ang mahigit dalawang taon para ayusin agad ang education crisis sa bansa at benepisyo at sahod ng mga guro at education support personnel,” she added.
Castro expressed hope that the new DepEd Secretary will prioritize the welfare of educators and implement effective reforms to address the pressing issues in the Philippine education system.
Vice President Duterte personally visited Malacañang on Wednesday afternoon to submit her resignation from her positions as DepEd chief and vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).
“In resigning her post from the NTF-ELCAC, we hope that the red-tagging agency would also be abolished. It is nothing but an apparatus of the state to violate human rights and spread fake news,” Castro said. (TCSP)
