Private schools, forgotten partners in PH education

With June — the traditional month for the opening of classes — just a day away, education has risen to the top of national discourse. Since March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has dominated the public agenda. And since then, classes have been suspended, as part of quarantine protocols.

With the coronavirus disease 2019 threat lingering, President Rodrigo Duterte recently declared that classes should not resume before a vaccine was developed and commercialized. His statement brought attention back to the perennial problems of education in the Philippines.