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Higher salaries,not K+12 — teachers

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Higher salaries,not K+12 — teachers


The Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC) challenged President Aquino to take action on several bills for teachers’ compensation pending before the houses of Congress.

Benjo Basas, the group’s chairman said “this is the high time to discuss the pending bills on teachers’ salaries and this is far more important than the proposed K+12 program of the government.”

Basas noted that several bills have been proposed since the opening of the 15th Congress and the most common were proposals that sought to upgrade the salaries of public school teachers from the current Salary Grade 11 (SG-11) to higher positions under the Salary Standardization Law 3 (SLL-3), which was fully implemented last month.

“We appreciate any proposal that seeks to augment the living of our teachers because this is a testament that the legislators know what is due the teachers and the government recognizes its mistake for putting us in a very low position in government classification.”.... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/nation/item/1500-higher-salariesnot-k%2012-%E2%80%94-teachers

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