THE NEXT Education secretary should be a career educator with extensive experience as a teacher instead of a political appointee, a congressman said on Thursday.

鈥淚 humbly suggest to the search committees in Malaca帽ang looking for a new secretary that they choose a real educator with a track record of success as a public school teacher in basic education,鈥 Manila Rep. Joel R. Chua said in a statement.

Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio on Wednesday resigned from her position as Education secretary and as vice chairperson of the government鈥檚 anti-communist task force. 鈥 Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio