EDUCATION Secretary Leonor Briones should condemn President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to attack Lumad schools (schools run by indigenous people), lawmakers said Thursday.

Reps. Antonio Tinio and France Castro of Alliance of Concerned Teachers made the call in light of the President’s statements during his State of the Nation Address that Lumad schools would be bombed by government forces, particularly the Air Force, because they lacked permit to operate.

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