Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Monday, March 27, claimed that the recent call of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) for the Department of Education (DepEd) to hire 30,000 additional teachers per year to resolve the problematic teacher-student ratio was just a tactic to...
To resolve the teacher shortage in the country’s public schools, a group on Wednesday, March 22, urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to hire 30,000 new teachers yearly in the next five years. Following the pronouncement of Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte that the agency...
As the House Committee on Basic Education held a hearing on the proposed Career Progression System for public teachers, a group on Monday, March 20, called on Congress and the Department of Education (DepEd) to formulate policies that would ensure a “fair and just” merit and promotion system....
The House Committee on Basic Education and Culture on Monday, March 20, approved the unnumbered substitute bill, subject to style and amendments, that would institutionalize the career progression system for public school teachers. The Department of Education (DepEd) and the Alliance of Concerned...
House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro believes that there's "high possibility" that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue a warrant of arrest against former president Rodrigo Duterte in connection with his bloody war on drugs. This, after the ICC's...
Allocate the equivalent of at least 6 percent of the Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) to education. This, according to House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro, will help the Marcos administration address the severe classroom backlog and learning crisis...
With the help of his teachers, a student from a public school in Tondo, Manila came up with a creative, environmentally friendly, and innovative solution to waste management. After seeing the growing problem of garbage and the lack of proper roads in their area, Grade 8 student John Paul Ralloma...
Budget issues on the salary grades of new teaching positions to be created under a proposed measure stopped the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture on Monday, March 13, from approving the unnumbered substitute bill that would ensure public school teachers are well-compensated and can...
As the country and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) prepare for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls this year, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Thursday, March 9, issued a reminder about electoral cheating and the importance of electoral reforms to ensure the...
A neophyte congressman wants to double to P1.5 billion the annual funding for the in-service skills retooling of public school teachers to boost their expertise in delivering lessons in English, mathematics, and science. (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BATANGAS) “Our teachers deserve more support...
The Pasig City local government recognized on Thursday, May 19, 18 future teachers who passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) in March 2022. Mayor Vico Sotto met with the examinees who paid a courtesy call on him at the city hall. Sotto shared that he was proud of their achievements,...
A group of education workers on Thursday, Feb. 23, expressed disappointment over the “obvious aversion” of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to the calls for a salary increase for teachers. (NOEL PABALATE / MANILA BULLETIN) “Instead of recognizing the economic hardships of public...
