‘Education needs to shun opportunist politicians’

THE Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (Cocopea) demanded that the education sector should be made free from political meddling, stressing that direct government interferences on private education system will strangle the economic gains of some private schools.

“We [from the private education sectors] all share the perspective that education needs to be isolated from political activities especially short-term political gains,” Dr. Patricia Bustos-Lagunda, Cocopea president, told The Manila Times in an earlier interview.