Two lady lawmakers in the House of Representatives have filed separate bills pushing for the welfare of teachers.
Bohol 3rd District Representative Kristine Alexie Tutor has filed House Bill No. 9913 unloading teachers of healthcare roles.
Binan City Representative Marlyn Alonte, on the other hand, filed HB 9914 to unburden teachers of administrative tasks and functions.
HB 9913 is meant to apply to all private and public schools from K to 12 to higher education.
HB 9913 is meant to apply to all private and public schools from K to 12 to higher education, while HB 9914 is for all public and private basic education schools.
Both bills apply student population size as the reference for the kinds and scalable minimum numbers of licensed professionals and certified specialists needed at different growth stages of schools.
“The time has come for the beginning of the end of the administrative work overload of teachers so they can focus on teaching, professional advancement, and work-life balance,” Alonte said in the explanatory note of HB 9914.
Tutor said she filed HB 9913 because of the “recent moves of the Department of Education to unburden school teachers of non-teaching responsibilities and tasks. I support those moves.”
“HB 9913 directly addresses a massive chunk of the non-academic workload of school teachers.”
“HB 9913 directly addresses a massive chunk of the non-academic workload of school teachers. It seeks to establish Health and Safety Offices in all schools,” the legislator added.
“If we can shift all or most of the significant capital outlay and logistics needs to foreign-funded programs and maybe some public-private partnerships, thereby unburdening the annual national budget, there would be fiscal space,” she concluded.
