By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Nearly 500 members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) from different public schools in Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan, Pasig, Malabon, Rizal, Central Luzon, and other Divisions marched to the gates of Congress to lobby for the passage of House Bill 2142: Ant Act Upgrading the Minimum…
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Teachers oppose Aquino’s ban on bonuses
INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Instead of heeding the just demands of state workers for adequate remuneration and tighter price controls, Aquino targets public servants, whose basic take-home pay cannot them home.”– ACT
Slideshow: The dismal state of Quezon City public schools
The school opening last June 4 was greeted by the same problems experienced during the previous school years. It was disastrous as usual. The students were once again greeted by lack of chairs, books, classrooms and most specially teachers. The government’s answer to this perennial problems of shortages and poor quality of the education in…
YEARENDER: The ailing education system and the K + 12 that is doomed to fail
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Even if the curriculum is changed but the existing problems of shortages are not addressed, quality education will still not be attained.” – France Castro, Alliance of Concerned Teachers
Still struggling to teach with so little
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Not only is it a dishonor, it is also an injustice to our teachers to teach amid conditions of scarcity and slave-like compensation. This is something that President Aquino should have learned in his years of study in Ateneo.” – Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan
France Castro: teacher, friend, activist
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“I see how these poor students suffer from poverty; many of them have nothing to eat and no money to buy paper. If I leave the country, I would only add to the shortage of thousands of teachers needed to teach these poor students.”
Tie AFP budget to human rights record, says ACT solon
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com A progressive lawmaker in the House of Representatives continue to fight for a pro-poor 2012 national budget by submitting amendments. Earlier this week, Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Representative Antonio L. Tinio submitted proposed amendments to House Bill 5023 or the General Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2012 to…
Lawmaker calls for increased “chalk allowance” for public school teachers
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com A piece of chalk may cost only a peso, but one piece or two a day will inevitably add up to a big enough amount. Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Party-list Representative Antonio Tinio said that many teachers in various school divisions in the country are not receiving their…
Teachers’ Group Protest Delays in Payment of Kindergarten Teachers’ Salaries
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) held a picket in front of the national office of the Department of Education in Pasig City on the opening of its eight-week Kindergarten Summer Program (KSP) in all schools nationwide to protest against delays in the salary payments of kindergarten teachers. France…
News in Pictures: Teacher-lawmaker Calls for Immediate Release of Hostages in Agusan del Sur
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — ACT Teachers Party-List Representative Antonio L. Tinio has called on the Aquino administration to exhaust all means to ensure the safe release of 14 teachers, students, and school personnel abducted by armed men last April 1 in Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur. On April 1, at least six…
Educators Call On Lawmakers To Increase Teachers’ Salaries
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Some 300 teachers from all over Quezon City, Manila, Taguig, Malabon, Caloocan and Pasig marched from the Sandigan Bayan offices to the House of Representatives on March 15, 2011 and called on lawmakers to support, approve and pass House Bill 2142, or” An Act Upgrading the Minimum Salary of…