While the return to full face-to-face classes will help bridge the learning gaps, a group of education workers urged the government to implement immediate reforms to ensure education recovery amid the Covid-19 pandemic. (MARK BALMORES / MANILA BULLETIN) For the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT)...
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines called the national government’s continuous “neglect” to the needs of educators and learners as “disheartening.” It said that amid the implementation of face-to-face classes, many educators and learners are still suffering from the...
Students of Corazon Aquino Elementary School in Quezon City assemble before going inside their classrooms on the first day of opening of face-to-face classes on August 22, 2022 (MARK BALMORES / MANILA BULLETIN) Gaps in education resources marred the first day of classes on Monday, Aug. 22,...
Members of ACT hold sunrise protest to demand government responsibility for safe school reopening (Photo courtesy of ACT Philippines) At sunrise, public school teachers on Monday, Aug. 22 staged a picket protest at Mendiola in Manila to call on the government to take on its responsibility for the...
The Department of Education (DepEd) was urged to clarify that the P5,000 cash allowance usually received by classroom teachers is not an additional monetary aid but a benefit given to them on school opening. Photo taken at Agtangao Elementary School, in Bangued, Abra last June 2021 (Courtesy of...
The inadequate number of classrooms in the Philippines was further reduced due to the Department of Education’s (DepEd) failure to reconstruct and repair typhoon-damaged schools, said Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) on Tuesday, Aug. 16. The teachers’ group said that several classrooms in...
The Department of Education (DepEd) reminded heads of schools in public schools nationwide that any collection of fees or solicitation from volunteers or stakeholders is not allowed during the implementation of “Brigada Eskwela.” DepEd’s Brigada Eskwela in 2019 (Photo courtesy of DepEd)...
A group on Monday, Aug. 8, decried the flagrant violation of the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers as the Department of Education (DepEd) allegedly continues to “oblige” teachers to work on supposed rest days without proper compensation. (NOEL PABALATE / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)...
The President’s veto on a bill exempting taxes to election duty honorarium surprised and dismayed teachers. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) In a virtual presser on Sunday, July 31, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines called out President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., after...
More than 200 groups of teaching and non-teaching personnel, on Thursday, July 21, presented 10 measures to help ensure “education recovery” in the Philippines. (Image courtesy of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers Philippines) Days before President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s first...
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines said on Wednesday, July 20, that President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s greenlight on the institutionalization of blended learning is an admission of the "dire state of our educational system." (Photo from the Department of Education /...
Teachers and education workers held a protest of action in front of the House of Representatives in Quezon City on Monday, July 18, urging Congress to “prioritize” the legislation of House Bill 203 and House Bill 1783 to increase teachers’ salaries as well as the national budget for...
