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A week into this year’s celebration of National Teachers’ Month, CamSur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is asking the Congress to put on the front burner twin measures bumping up the pay and making permanent the teaching supplies’ allowance of some 800,000 public school teachers. Villafuerte made this appeal in support of President Marcos’ renewed commitment to deliver on his 2023 […]
As the country commemorates National Teachers’ Month this September, the chair of the House Committee on Labor and Employment hailed the move by the Department of Education (DepEd) to reduce the workload of teachers. “We thank Vice President and DepEd Secretary Sara Duterte and all other officials for this move. This is a timely intervention […]
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Saturday called on the Ombudsman to go after the contractors involved in the multi-billion-peso laptop procurement deals, marred by allegations of irregularities. The senator likewise urged the anti-corruption body to undertake vigorous efforts in reclaiming public funds used in the anomalous deals. The contract was awarded by […]
The Department of Education and the Province of Davao Oriental are working together to increase the number of qualified teachers hired. This joint effort is focused on improving access to high-quality education for all students while also meeting the demand for deserving educators. “We are now conducting the recruitment and evaluation of teacher-applicants for elementary, […]
Makati City Rep. Luis Campos Jr. has filed a bill seeking to increase to P3,000 the annual World Teachers’ Day Incentive Benefit (WTDIB) payable to every public school teacher employed by the Department of Education. Under House Bill No. 7840 filed by Campos, the WTDIB would be bumped up from P1,000 to P3,000. Campos invoked […]
The House Committee on Basic Education and Culture technical working group (TWG) chaired by ACT Teachers Party-list Representative France Castro tackled the substitute bill seeking to institutionalize support mechanisms on matters of student discipline and classroom management for teachers and personnel in the public school system. The substitute bill consolidates House Bills (HB) 364, 549, […]
Public school teachers and non-teaching personnel residing in Quezon City may soon have a home they can call their own. This, after the Quezon City government and the Department of Education held the groundbreaking and memorandum of understanding signing of the QCitizen Homes Republic Residences at Republic Avenue in Barangay Holy Spirit. Vice President Sara […]
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa threw his full support for the passage of a measure that would reduce the need for teachers to bear the cost of teaching supplies while providing quality education to their students. Dela Rosa commended Senator Bong Revilla, Jr. for sponsoring Senate Bill No. 1964 or the Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act […]
Rizal 4th District Rep. Fidel Nograles lauded the Department of Education for its efforts to protect teachers from falling prey to loan sharks by providing them legal and financial advice. “Magandang hakbang ang planong ito ng DepEd sa pangunguna ni Vice President Sara Duterte upang maprotektahan ang ating mga guro laban sa mga loan shark […]
It is high time to end the “abono” situation of public school teachers who have to pay in advance for the needs of their students, out of their own pockets, Senator Robin Padilla said. Padilla threw his full support behind proposed measures providing additional benefits and privileges for public school teachers, who he hailed for […]