The 24-member Senate on Monday, May 22, passed on third and final reading a measure which seeks to increase the yearly supplies allowance of teachers in all public schools. With a unanimous vote of 20 senators present, Senate Bill (SB) 1964, or the Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act, inches towards its...
The United States is hosting a series of intensive training workshops for more than 100 English teachers around the country until May 26. Ambassador MaryKay Carlson discusses highlights of the teacher training workshop with university professors from Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of US Embassy in the...
A group of teachers welcomed the proposed changes in the K to 123 curriculum as contained in the draft released by the Department of Education (DepEd) last month. (MARK BALMORES / MANILA BULLETIN) “Curriculum changes are imperative if we hope to ever recover and initial steps have already been...
A group of education workers on Friday, May 12, asked the Department of Education (DepEd) to take accountability in “negligence and corruption cases” that led to the alleged fire sale of laptops in retail and online stores. (DepEd file photo) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte underscored the importance of education in ending the cycle of poverty when she visited two public schools in Tacloban on Thursday, May 11. (Photo from Official Facebook Page of Inday Sara Duterte) Duterte visited The Basper Elementary School and...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), and Vice President Sara Duterte (Rep. Castro's office, Facebook) Vice President Sara Duterte will get to "control" more confidential and intelligence funds in her new role as co-vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist...
To further strengthen teacher education in the country, an advocacy group urged education agencies to fast-track the publication of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Republic Act (RA) 11713 or the Excellence in Teacher Education Act. (DepEd file photo) “The publication of the IRR...
As the Department of Education (DepEd) revises the K to 12 curriculum, a group urged Vice President Sara Duterte, who serves as the Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary in a concurrent capacity, to retract her “red-tagging statements” publicly apologize for “attacking human rights.”...
To discuss the provision of high-quality professional development programs and courses to teachers and school leaders, the Department of Education (DepEd) converged with the National Network of Normal Schools. (DepEd file photo) DepEd, through the National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP)...
House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teacher's party-list Rep. France Castro on Monday, May 1, urged the Marcos administration to rechannel the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to fund the fuel subsidies for Occidental Mindoro. "Nasasayang...
A group of education workers expressed concern about the new curriculum for Kinder to Grade 10 noting that it will essentially weaken the sense of nationalism among learners in the primary years of schooling. (MARK BALMORES / MANILA BULLETIN) “ACT agrees that the development of foundational...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (Facebook) Ahead of the celebration of Labor Day on May 1, Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte urged the House of Representatives to pass two bills that would make life easier for public school teachers. “I am likewise hoping that the...
