The Department Of Education Continued Pushing For More Benefits For Teachers
DEPED – The Department of Education is continuing its push to call for additional benefits to be granted to teachers.
Precious reports also speculated salary increase for public school teachers. The palace also apparently pursued the salary increase for teachers.
On top of this, the Department of Education calls for additional benefits to be granted to public school teachers.
According to Undersecretary Annalyn Sevilla, the department has set to “review and propose additional benefits for public school teachers.” She revealed this information yesterday during her visit at Signal Village National High School in Taguig City.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones and Taguig City Mayor and representative-elect Lani Cayetano also participated in the session.
Recently, Sevilla revealed during a press briefing that DepEd also made a proposal to add the “special hardship” and “teaching overload” allowances as some kind of honoraria to reward teachers for their extended services.
Back in October last year, DepEd released a statement defining the hardship allowance as a form of honorarium for public teachers designated to difficult areas.
Including teachers that work with multi-grade classes or teachers who conduct mobile teaching ops.
Also an overload extra allowance for teachers who work beyond the mandated duty hours and put in over six hours of classroom teaching.
The department has also made a proposal to establish a stable fund to cover teachers’ medical examinations, which would also be considered as a benefit.
A promotions system based on merit or performance was also suggested by the department. This is to ensure that teachers’ professional careers will not be stagnant from the beginning until they retire.
To successfully pursure this, however, Briones said that the government would have to take extra taxes to provide the needed fund for the salary increase.
She revealed the possible cost that it would take to implement the salary increase in her statement:
“If you think over 900,000 teachers will have an increase of P10,000, it will cost us P150 billion on top of the more than P500-billion budget… Let us ask our citizens, are you ready to pay P150 billion more?”
This is based on an article from Philstar.
That is all there is to it, at least for now. We’ll post updates as soon as we got them.
