DAVAO City Mayor Sara Duterte Carpio on Thursday has accepted education department post and would work on producing skilled learners.
In a statement, Duterte-Carpio thanked Marcos “for the confidence in me to lead the Department of Education.”
The vice-presidential frontrunner said she and Marcos talked about the defense department portfolio “but seeing the way things are at the moment, I expect that people who want to see the new administration to fail will fabricate intrigues about my loyalty and the DND position to break the UniTeam.”
“Yesterday, the presumptive President and I once again talked about how I could help the country. It was decided that I would work on producing skilled learners with the mindset to realize their full potential as individuals,” she said.
“Our country needs a future generation of patriotic Filipinos that advocate peace and discipline in their respective communities.”
Duterte-Carpio has secured 31,560,847 votes from from 98.35% of Election Returns Thursday morning, based on partial and unofficial results.
Liloan town mayor Christina Frasco earlier told ANC’s Headstart that Duterte-Carpio wanted to be appointed defense secretary. Hours later, Marcos announced that Duterte-Carpio had already agreed take on the role of education secretary.
Nag-agree naman siya (She agreed to it),” Marcos said.
“Palagay ko, kasama na diyan, dahil (I think this is also because) she is a mother and she wants to make sure that her children are well-trained and well-educated. That’s the best motivation that we can hope for,” he added.
Duterte-Carpio will be overseeing the agency responsible for the K-12 curriculum taught to over 27 million students. This includes how it discusses the history of her running mate’s father as well as her own father’s administration.
