PH Public School Teachers To Receive Php35T

The Philippine public school teachers are all excited to receive an almost 100% hike from their present salary when a salary increase measure will be enacted into law and implemented.

Salary Increase

A bill proposing for 93% increase of the 500,000 public school teachers is filed by Senator Antonio "Sonny" Trillanes IV.

A gross salary of P35,567 will be received by the teachers in lieu of their present salary of P18,549, that is, from salary grade of 11 to salary grade of 20.

Senator Trillanes qualified that this is in line with the 4th tranche of the implementation of the Salary Standardization Law (SSL).

PH Public School Teachers' Clothing Allowance Hike Approved

Beginning this year 2012, the clothing allowance of the teachers in the public schools will be increased from Php4,000 to Php5,000.

Though the increase is meager, but yet it could augment the clothing needs of the teachers and could even bolster their morale of attaining the quality of education in the public school.

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) claimed that this is a "victory" for them as one of the 10-point demand for greater education budget has been approved.

It was pointed out that the teachers from different groups and the teaching staff all over the country had been requesting for this increase. And the ACT was leading in a series of campaigns, mass dialogues nation-wide.