14,000 teachers from state schools to benefit from P1.3-B proposed budget

Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo. congress.gov.ph/

MANILA, Philippines — At least 14,000 teachers from 112 state universities and colleges (SUCs) stand to benefit from a P1.3 billion fund in the proposed 2015 budget which is set aside for salary upgrades, a lawmaker said on Monday.

In a press conference, Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo said this is the first time since 2010 that the DBM set aside a budget for the salary upgrades especially as some SUCs only funded salary upgrades through their own savings.

Romulo said this is in implementing the DBM’s June 1998 National Budget Circular that seeks to prescribe rules and regulations in implementing the revised compensation and position classification plan for faculties in SUCs.

Romulo said when he asked the DBM representative in a committee hearing, the agency could not give a reason it failed to implement its 1998 circular since 2010.

He said the agency said government should be “moving forward” instead of looking back at the agency’s failure to implement the circular.
Romulo, who chairs the higher and technical education committee, also said this is the first time the DBM set aside a fat budget for salary upgrades since 2010.