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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

DepEd pushes additional benefits for teachers


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MANILA, Philippines — Amid calls for an increase in the salary of teachers, the Department of Education (DepEd) is pushing for more benefits to be given to them.
The DepEd will “review and propose additional benefits for public school teachers,” Undersecretary Annalyn Sevilla told reporters during a visit yesterday at Signal Village National High School in Taguig City, led by Education Secretary Leonor Briones and Taguig City Mayor and representative-elect Lani Cayetano.
DepEd had earlier proposed adding so-called “special hardship” and “teaching overload” allowances as forms of honoraria for teachers, Sevilla said at a press briefing.

In a statement in October last year, the DepEd defined the hardship allowance as an honorarium for teachers assigned in difficult posts, who handle multigrade classes or carry out mobile teaching functions; and overload allowance as remuneration for teachers who put in more than six hours of classroom teaching.
Sevilla added the agency is also proposing that a fund be created to cover the yearly medical examination for teachers, hence, becoming a benefit.
The DepEd will also recommend a system of promotion for teachers based on merit or performance, so they will not remain on the same level from where they started until retirement.
Briones, however, maintained that the government must collect additional taxes to provide the salary increase that they had long been asking, when she was asked again about the pressing concern of salary hike for teachers.
“If you think over 900,000 teachers will have an increase of P10,000, it will cost us P150 billion on top of the more than P500-billion budget… Let us ask our citizens, are you ready to pay P150 billion more?” the education chief said.
Meanwhile, P75 billion worth of additional taxes must also be collected should an increase of P5,000 for teachers’ salaries be approved. Briones cited a study from the National Economic and Development Authority as basis for her stand. – With Alexis Romero, Janvic Mateo, Rainier Allan Ronda, Emmanuel Tupas

Saturday, June 1, 2019

DepEd reminds principals, teachers on ‘no collection’ policy

With the ongoing enrollment at basic education levels nationwide, the Department of Education (DepEd) today reminded principals and teachers on existing “no collection” policy and enjoined parents and stakeholders to report the concerned public schools.

DepEd Sec. Leonor Briones
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“We have repeated that policy again and again,” said Education Secretary Leonor Briones when asked if there are still public schools that collect fees from elementary and secondary students. She noted that the DepEd has been consistently reminding its personnel in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide to refrain from imposing and collecting “compulsory” contributions among their students especially during enrollment period.
Briones reiterated that the DepEd is “firm on its goal to provide all Filipino learners with free basic education in public elementary and secondary schools.” Thus, the concerned school personnel must ensure that “collection of authorized contributions must remain voluntary, not compulsory.”

Meanwhile, DepEd Undersecretary for Planning and Field Operations Jesus Mateo said the number of reported cases of public schools that violate the “no collection” policy of the Department has been decreasing in the recent years.
“The best solution to that is they report the school to us,” said Mateo. “They have no business to collect because their MOOE [Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses] is increasing unlike before that it’s very minimal,” he added.
Based on DepEd’s “No Collection” Policy, contributions should “not become monetary constraints for parents and learners” as DepEd acknowledges the “many expenses they incur just to send their children to school.”
Most importantly, DepEd reiterated that “failure to settle these voluntary school contributions shall not be used as a basis for non-admission, nonpromotion, or non-issuance of clearance to a student.” The “no collection policy” of the Department is stated in DepEd Order 41 series of 2012 which includes the implementing policies on the collection of voluntary school contributions.

Under the guidelines, DepEd allows authorized contributions for Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP), Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP), Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC), Anti-TB Fund Drive, Parents-Teachers Association (PTA), and school publication fee. Meanwhile, the contribution per learner for the BSP and GSP is P50, P35 for the PNRC, and P5 for the Anti-TB Fund Drive.
DepEd said “an exorbitant amount for the PTA contribution must be avoided.” This contribution, the Department added, “may only be collected after the PTA presents to their members and to the school head/principal a report on the utilization of the previous school year’s collections and their proposed budget with program of activities.”
For the school publication fee, DepEd stressed that “no more than sixty pesos (P60) may be collected from elementary pupils and not more than ninety pesos (P90) for high school students.” Although not mandatory, DepEd noted that the publication of the “school newspaper is encouraged to promote the journalism program at the elementary and secondary levels.”

Public schools nationwide will start classes on June 4. DepEd data showed that around 28-million students in both public and private schools are expected to troop back to their respective schools for the school year (SY) 2018-2019.