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Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the new administration to decongest the workload of public school teachers so they could focus on their teaching duties. Gatchalian emphasized that decongesting the workload of teachers affects the quality and delivery of education to the country’s K to 12 learners. “Decongesting the workload of teachers affects the quality and delivery […]
A party-list lawmaker proposed a measure mandating the provision of free on-site living quarters for public school teachers. Pinuno Party-list Representative Howard Guintu filed House Bill 1041, which aims to reduce the burden of public school teachers who spend long hours of travel to get to their designated schools, by providing them with free housing. […]
Increasing the salary of public school teachers takes precedence in Senator Win Gatchalian’s list of priority bills for the 19th Congress. While three other education-related measures are among his top 10 bills, Gatchalian is likewise bent on putting in motion the mandatory registration of all subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and a law to provide […]
Senator Nancy Binay called on the government to ensure that all school staff members are fully vaccinated and that schools are fully compliant with safety protocols even before the planned implementation of full face-to-face classes in November.“As a parent, syempre, before na mag-full face-to-face sa November, gusto rin nating ‘yung mga teacher at support staff […]
Senator Imee Marcos has proposed that special exams be held for Education graduates barred from taking the licensure exams for teachers this June and in September. Marcos, who chairs the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs, said that job creation and income relief were being delayed by the decision of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) to […]
To effectively address the crisis hounding the education sector, Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the incoming administration to ensure quality education and training for teachers. “Kung maganda ang mismong pundasyon ng mga guro, inaasahang dekalidad din ang ibibigay nilang klase ng pagtuturo sa mga estudyante nila,” the veteran legislator stressed. According to Gatchalian, who is […]
Senator Win Gatchalian hailed the Senate’s third reading approval of a measure that seeks to exempt poll workers’ honoraria and other benefits from income tax. Senate Bill No. 2520, which Gatchalian co-authored, excludes from gross income the honoraria, travel allowance, and other benefits granted by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to persons rendering election service. […]
Improving the skills of learners, fixing the K-12 system, and upholding the welfare of teachers should be among the priorities of the Department of Education (DepEd) under the new administration, Senator Win Gatchalian suggested. Gatchalian recalled that out of 79 countries that participated in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Philippines ranked […]
The Department of Education (DepEd), in partnership with Banco de Oro (BDO) Foundation and Huawei Philippines, honored math and science teachers for developing innovative financial literacy self-learning modules (SLMs) at the online awards ceremony for The Search for the Best Supplemental Learning Materials in the Teaching of Defined Key Concepts in Science and Mathematics recently. […]
As part of the agency’s commitment to free and clean elections, the Department of Education (DepEd) shared the current preparation of the Election Task Force (ETF) 2022 to assist the field office during the National and Local Elections this coming May 9. “We want to ensure that the necessary assistance to the field offices and […]