Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Jesli Lapus urged the House of Representatives to approve House Bill 4734 that authorizes public school teachers to receive an additional one-time increase of P9,000 within three years and another P3,000 every year thereafter.
Its Senate counterpart, Senate Bill 2408, has been passed on second reading.
The increase will make the teachers’ pay at par with those received by soldiers and policemen, Lapus noted.
“The welfare of teachers are our foremost priority,” Lapus stressed.
In November 2007, DepEd signed a memorandum of agreement with Gawad Kalinga, Pag-Ibig Fund, and some pioneering local government units to undertake an affordable housing program for its more than 90,000 teachers who do not have their own homes yet. (PIA/Bohol)
