Teachers gripe on stipend delays
EIGHT days after the elections, the teachers who served as Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) are complaining about the delay in the release of their honoraria.
EIGHT days after the elections, the teachers who served as Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) are complaining about the delay in the release of their honoraria.
MANILA, Philippines—Despite a glut of licensed teachers, the Department of Education (DepEd) is finding it hard to fill all 61,510 vacancies in the public schools this year due to a lack of qualified teachers in some areas. The DepEd’s P293.32-billion budget this year includes an allocation for the hiring of 61,510 new teachers to [...]
PUBLIC school teachers who served as Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) in last Monday’s elections will receive their P4,000 honorarium this week.
The 85 chapter offices of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) nationwide will remain open until midnight Monday to give free legal assistance to teacher-election inspectors who may be harassed or sued by losing candidates.
Public school teachers who will once more be in the frontlines of the elections will have insurance coverage in case of election-related death or injuries.
The public school teachers who were deputized for election duty have been told to pay P200 each to get their honoraria through “cash cards,” a teachers’ group alleged on the eve of elections.
Public school teachers who will man the elections on Monday may themselves not be able to vote. A teachers’ group posed this ironic scenario to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) based on the teachers’ experience in the last automated elections in 2010.
Teachers, particularly those assigned to volatile and fraud-prone areas in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are demanding higher pay for election duty.
Some 240,000 public school teachers who will serve as election inspectors in the May 13 elections have been assured that they will be insured, secured and assisted by lawyers from “harassment suits.”
The government needs to invest more in teachers in order improve the quality of education, senatorial candidates Richard Gordon and Alan Cayetano said during a Senate Forum by the Philippine Daily Inquirer Wednesday.
Public school teachers who will sit as members of the Board of Election Inspections (BEI) were made to undergo training starting on Friday to teach them the proper use of the Precinct Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) machines and on how to transmit election results.
The country’s nearly 600,000 public school teachers will likely receive their performance-based bonus (PBB) before the next school year starts in June.
Independent senatorial candidate and party-list Rep. Teddy Casiño on Tuesday asked the Commission on Elections to provide an additional allowance of P2,000 for teachers who will man the polling precincts in the May elections.
