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Gadon hopes Angara appointment as DepEd chief will improve PH's PISA ratings

Published Jul 2, 2024 07:42 am

Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation Larry Gadon hopes that Senator Sonny Angara’s appointment as next Department of Education (DepEd) chief would pave the way for the improvement of the Philippines’ performance in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).

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Senator Sonny Angara (Senate of the Philippines/File Photo/MANILA BULLETIN) 

 

In a statement on Tuesday, July 2, the presidential anti-poverty czar reacted to Angara’s appointment to President Marcos’ Cabinet.
 

“Congratulations to Sen. Sonny Angara for being designated as Secretary of Education. His upcoming appointment is a welcome addition to the Marcos cabinet,” he said.
 

The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said that Angara’s appointment was announced by the President during the 17th Cabinet meeting in the Malacañan Palace on Tuesday.
 

The senator, who is on his last term, will officially take over the vacated post of Vice President Sara Duterte on July 19.
 

The Vice President tendered her resignation and has given the President her 30-day notice last June 19.
 

Gadon expressed hope that at the helm of DepEd, Angara will help the Philippines “improve its PISA ratings.”
 

In its December 2023 report, PISA stated that Filipino 15-year-old students are five to six years behind their foreign peers in learning competencies.
 

Based on the 2022 PISA, the Philippines also landed in the bottom 10 out of 81 countries in reading comprehension, mathematics, and science, marking the second time it happened.
 

The PISA, developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), measures the ability of a 15-year-olds to use their reading, mathematics, and science knowledge and skills to answer real-life challenges.
 

Gadon said he is also “hopeful” that Angara “will contribute a lot in the improvement our human resource development by way of leading the education sector to a new and better direction.”
 

“Education is a major key in alleviating poverty hence I am happy that the DepEd Sec(retary) is someone who is really capable of instituting reforms in our educational system,” he said.
 

Angara, the son of the late Senate president and former president of the University of the Philippines Edgardo Angara, served as Aurora representative from 2004 to 2013 before becoming senator in 2013.
 

An advocate of education and Filipino youth welfare, he is a co-author of the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 or the K to 12 program in the lower chamber.
 

He was also a commissioner of the Second Congressional Commission on Education or EDCOM 2, which aims to address education woes.
 

Angara, a lawyer, earned his undergraduate degree in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1994.
 

He graduated from the University of the Philippines’ College of Law in 2000 and obtained his Masters of Laws at Harvard Law School in 2003.

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