NICE TRY VP Sara slams ACT Teachers’ demand for hiring more tutors, get more budget

By MAYA M. PADILLO

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte said she will never be fooled.

The message was in reaction to the suggestions of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) for the Department of Education (DepEd) to hire 30,000 public teachers and allocate a budget of P100 billion per year for building classrooms.

The vice president said these are “obviously deceptive maneuvers deliberately designed to counter the Marcos administra- tion’s solution to the problems hounding the education sector.”

“The call could not be coming from a place of genuine concern

MILF reassures commitment to 9year-old Bangsamoro peace pact

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has assured anew the Philippine Government of its commitment to the provisions of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB).

Both sides signed the CAB nine years ago after 17 years of peace negotiations on March 27, 2014, during the term of the late President Benigno Aquino III.

walk this path with him side by side and with parity of esteem.” for the future of our learners and the welfare of our teachers. Instead, it is a call motivated by the group’s fascination for demands and goals that are unrealistic and impossible — placing the government in a precarious situation that will ultimately end in failure,” Duterte said in a statement shared with the media on Monday.

“We offer the strength, dreams and determination of the Bangsamoro people,” said Iqbal, Minister of Education of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

She also stated the timing also betrayed ACT Teachers’ true