1. Brother Armin Altamirano Luistro was born on December 24,1961 and is a Filipino Lasallian Brother who served as secretary of the Department of Education of the Philippines under President Benigno Aquino III.
28 Facts About Armin Luistro
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Armin Luistro is the first Asian Superior General of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools or De La Salle Brothers worldwide.
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Armin Luistro received the religious habit of the congregation in October 1981 at the La Salle Novitiate in Lipa.
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Armin Luistro professed his first religious vows in October 1982, and his final vows in May 1988.
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Armin Luistro started teaching as a religion teacher at De La Salle Lipa in 1983.
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Armin Luistro was made provincial of the De La Salle Brothers Philippine District in April 1997, a post he held until 2003.
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Armin Luistro worked into establishing De La Salle Philippines which replaced the system.
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Armin Luistro attended first grade at Our Lady of the Rosary Academy in Lipa, grades 2 to 5 at Canossa Academy Lipa, and graduated elementary and high school at De La Salle Lipa.
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Armin Luistro pursued his undergraduate studies at De La Salle University in Manila under a scholarship, and was conferred Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Letters in March 1981.
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Armin Luistro enrolled in a graduate program in DLSU in 1991, and was conferred a Master of Arts degree in Religious Education in 1993.
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Armin Luistro graduated with a master's degree in religious education and values formation at the same university in 2003.
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Armin Luistro was conferred a doctorate degree in educational management with the highest Academic Excellence Award and Most Outstanding Dissertation in May 2005 at the University of St La Salle in Bacolod.
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Armin Luistro was made Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, by La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on May 9,2004.
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Armin Luistro entered the De La Salle Scholasticate in Manila in April 1979, and received the religious habit in October 1981 at the La Salle Novitiate in Lipa.
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Armin Luistro professed his first religious vows in October 1982, and his final vows in May 1988.
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Armin Luistro started teaching as a religion teacher at De La Salle Lipa in 1983.
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Armin Luistro was made provincial of the De La Salle Brothers Philippine District in April 1997, a post he held until 2003.
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Armin Luistro worked into establishing De La Salle Philippines which replaced the system.
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Armin Luistro called for the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during the height of the Hello Garci scandal in 2005.
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Armin Luistro estimated that there were a lack of 130,000 teachers; 72,000 classrooms; 7 million desks; 141,000 comfort rooms; and 96 million books.
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Armin Luistro instead wanted to focus on streamlining the bureaucracy of DepEd, which employs 600,000 employees.
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Armin Luistro argued that "streamlining is a must" as bulk of the department's budget goes to funding the salary of its employees.
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Armin Luistro is a major proponent of the K+12 Basic Education Program in the Philippines.
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Armin Luistro signed on behalf of the Deped the national policy framework for Indigenous peoples education in 2011.
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Armin Luistro is the president of the largest business NGO in the country, the Philippine Business for Social Progress.
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Armin Luistro has held various positions in other governmental and intergovernmental organisations, such as the Advisory Council of the National Youth Commission, the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines and the South East Asian Ministers of Education Organisation.
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Armin Luistro has been awarded as one of the first Most Distinguished Human Rights Defenders by Amnesty International in 2020.
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Armin Luistro was awarded the 2023 Gawad Bukas Palad Award by the Ateneo De Manila University for exhibiting the Ignatian spirit of generosity in giving back to the poor and the suffering.