Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Increase the Salary of Filipino Public School Teachers Petition

The Senate of the Republic of the Philippines has already forwarded to the House of Representatives for their concurrence Senate Bill No. 2408, or the Educators in Basic Education Compensation Act, last July 31, 2008. Until now, there has been NO action from the Lower House regarding this bill.

To recall, the bill proposes a Php 9,000 additional compensation, to be given over a three-year period in three tranches, to public school teachers, locally-funded teachers, non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education and Philippine Science High School teaching and non-teaching personnel. It likewise seeks a Php 1,000 medical check-up annual allowance for covered beneficiaries and a Magna Carta bonus to public school teachers and non-teaching personnel of the DepEd.

Being the Representatives of the Filipino People, we urge the Lower House to pass a counterpart bill to Senate Bill No. 2408, and upgrade the salary of public school teachers.






2 comments:

  1. Thanks for blogging about this! You are increasing the visibility of the petition!

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  2. Hi urbanguru,

    I've updated the petition to increase the salary of Filipino public school teachers and changed its location because of the requirements of the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000. The full explanation is here.

    Please update the text and the link to the petition; the old one had been disabled. Thanks.

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