MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) should be “ashamed,” and not demand for an apology, over the World Bank report which states that Filipino students “do not know what they should know in school,” a party-list lawmaker said Tuesday.
ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro said DepEd, as well as President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, “should be ashamed for its abandonment and negligence in the worsening education crisis in the country.”
Castro made the remark after DepEd demanded an apology from the World Bank for not following the proper protocol in releasing its Philippine education study and for supposedly releasing “old data.”
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