Senator Joel Villanueva is pushing for the passage of a bill that will give more allowances to teachers and non-teaching personnel in public and state-run schools.
We propose to provide additional grocery and transportation allowance, and medical allowance for teaching and non-teaching personnel in public basic education schools (Senate Bill No. 564), as well as teaching personnel in our [State Universities and Colleges] and [technical vocational institutions] (Senate Bill No. 565),
he said during a press release on Sunday, August 21.
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He added that the resumption of face-to-face classes must bring focus to relieving teachers’ difficulties as he emphasized that they spend their own money to shoulder classroom-related expenses outside of their academic tasks just to assist the needs of their students.
We must pay our teachers for what they are worth given the responsibility they carry on their shoulders -- our children's learning and future,
he said.
Although Villanueva admits that the most ideal way is to increase the salary of teachers and non-teaching personnel, he said that it is more realistic to increase their allowances instead.
He also reminded the Department of Education (DepEd) to ensure that everything is ready for the opening of classes and that minimum public health standards must be strictly observed in schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senator files bill to give more allowances to teachers and non-teaching staff
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