For decades, Philippine education policy has revolved around familiar arguments: budgets, curriculum, teacher salaries, class sizes, governance and learning outcomes. These are important debates, but Angara appears to be making a different argument: The country's education crisis, in his telling, is also an execution crisis.
The Philippines’ improved performance in the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is strengthening the case for education reform built around a shared mission among government, communities and the private sector.