{"id":150826,"date":"2018-02-03T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T06:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=150826"},"modified":"2018-02-03T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T06:47:18","slug":"deped-urged-to-address-delays-in-teachers-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/03\/deped-urged-to-address-delays-in-teachers-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"DepEd urged to address delays in teachers\u2019 bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22333\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/public-school-teachers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22333\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/public-school-teachers.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Laguna School Systems\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Laguna School Systems<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0The Department of Education (DepEd) was urged Friday to address the delays in the delivery of performance-based bonuses (PBB) of public school teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Sherwin Gatchalian made this call, noting that these delays have been a problem of DepEd since school year 2012 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Gatchalian, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Education, described the long delay as \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ensuring that teachers are properly compensated for their hard work and dedication to the youth of this country is something that should be at the top of the government&#8217;s to-do list. Our teachers deserve better than this,&#8221; Gatchalian said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>The senator, meanwhile, urged DepEd to streamline their clearance processing mechanisms to ensure that no further delays will occur.<\/p>\n<p>At present, teachers have yet to receive their bonuses for school year \u200e2016-2017. This is the first time the delay has reached the following fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>DepEd Undersecretary Jesus Mateo earlier blamed failed biddings and delayed processing of clearances.<\/p>\n<p>Public school teachers have asked the DepEd and Department of Budget and Management to address the delayed release of their bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>The Teachers&#8217; Dignity Coalition said there was no reason for government to delay its release since there was already funding allocation as early as fiscal year 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0The Department of Education (DepEd) was urged Friday to address the delays in the delivery of performance-based bonuses (PBB) of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[45666,21055,3461],"class_list":["post-150826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ph","tag-delays-in-the-delivery-of-performance-based-bonuses-pbb","tag-department-of-education-deped","tag-public-school-teachers","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}