SENATOR Win Gatchalian hailed President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr’s approval to create the cabinet cluster for education, a proposal made by the Second Congressional Commission on Education or EDCOM 2.

“Nagpapasalamat ako sa ating Pangulo dahil pinakinggan niya ang ating mungkahi sa paglikha ng cabinet cluster for education. Mahalagang hakbang ito upang matiyak na papunta sa isang direksyon ang ating mga ahensya ng pamahalaan pagdating sa mga polisiya at programa sa edukasyon,” said Gatchalian, EDCOM 2 Co-Chairperson.

Gatchalian is one of the authors of the Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 21, which urged the President to create the cabinet cluster.

The proposed cabinet cluster would ensure the cohesive and coherent implementation of education laws, policies, reforms, and regulations among the departments, bureaus, commissions, and offices of the executive branch.

The resolution provided that the cabinet cluster would provide strong oversight of all education agencies.

It will be headed by a cabinet member with a direct stake in education or a Presidential adviser with the rank of a secretary.

The EDCOM also emphasized the importance of addressing the country’s education crisis, ensuring a coherent and system-wide national education and workforce development plan, agency-level targets and budgets, and monitoring and evaluation systems.

In a press briefing, Education Secretary Juan Edgardo Angara reported that the President directed the cabinet cluster to create a 10-year national plan to address the country’s education crisis. Gatchalian meanwhile emphasized his readiness to work with the cabinet cluster for education in pursuing education reforms.