Group lauds measure seeking teachers’ pay hike

MILITANT teachers’ group Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) on Monday welcomed the proposed bill by Sen. Antonio Trillanes that aims to raise the salary of public school teachers from P18,549 to P35, 567 a month, but stressed that the proposed bill is long “overdue.”

“As stated in Article XIV, Section 5 of the Philippine Constitution, the State “shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education and ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment,” France Castro, the group’s secretary general, said.