With the issue of access to education largely resolved, the government will now “pivot” its focus on quality, Education Secretary Leonor Briones told The Manila Times in an exclusive interview last week. We support this shift, which will coincide with a program to build more classrooms in remote areas across the Philippines. And we urge the rest of the country to do the same.

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