Four Camarines Sur-based congressmen are batting for the increase in salaries of public school teachers, as well as a permanent allowance for their teaching supplies. A teacher giving lessons to students online (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) “Despite their heavy workload and essential...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Between the President and his Vice President, this is how they summed up the state of education: We have failed our teachers. We have failed our students. Might we assume that the two highest officials of the land were referring to our public school system, not the...
With 240 affirmative votes, the House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading the bill seeking to suspend the implementation of mother tongue or first language as the medium of instruction for pupils in kindergarten to Grade 3. (Erika Fletcher/ Unsplash) Passed during plenary...
The National Achievement Test for Grade 12 (NATG12) for School Year (SY) 2022-2023 will be administered this month, the Department of Education (DepEd) announced. Photo taken at Signal Village National High School, Taguig City June 2019 / file photo / DepEd Public Affairs Service Undersecretary and...
DALA'S painting on exhibit at the SM City Event Center in Lucena City. (Photo via Danny Estacio) LUCENA CITY, Quezon -- A 15-year-old Grade 10 student is staging a solo exhibit of her paintings from Dec. 19 to Dec. 23 at the SM City Lucena Event Center. Rafaella Elizah Bragais Dala dubbed her...
BACOLOD CITY – A grade 10 student who attended a Christmas Party in school, was killed after he was run over by a truck in Barangay 2 Poblacion, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Thursday, Dec. 15. The name of the 16-year-old boy, a resident of Barangay Cudangdang, was withheld. Rescuers arrive...
BACOLOD CITY – A Grade 11 student was allegedly raped and killed in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental over the weekend. A POLICE officer checks the area in Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental where a 16-year-old girl allegedly raped was found dead last Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Negros...
Debt-watcher S&P Global maintained the Philippines' investment grade status with stable outlook as it expects the economy to remain robust on the back of strong domestic demand. S&P on Thursday, Nov. 17, kept the country's long-term foreign-currency rating at "BBB+," which is one notch away...
In a bid to attract more educators to teach in public schools, Sen. Sonny Angara filed a bill raising the minimum salary grade level of teachers from the current Salary Grade 11 to 19. Angara said the bill primarily aims to attract more qualified and competent teachers in public schools and help...
House of Representatives members gave high marks for outgoing President Duterte, although they agreed that they would have given the 77-year-old leader an even higher overall grade if not for the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (left) and Anakalusugan Party-list...
An ally of President Duterte in the House of Representatives gave the outgoing leader a grade of 8 out of ten, but said that it would have easily been higher had the former served longer than six years. Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Barbers (left) and President Rodrigo Duterte...
Kontra Daya Election watchdog Kontra Daya gave the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Smartmatic a failing mark in handling this year's national and local elections. Kontra Daya Convenor Danilo Arao said their assessment in the recent general elections was “not really good.” “Kung...
