{"id":217468,"date":"2019-06-05T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=217468"},"modified":"2019-06-05T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T06:24:10","slug":"govt-needs-p150-b-to-fund-teachers-salary-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/05\/govt-needs-p150-b-to-fund-teachers-salary-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t needs P150-B to fund teachers\u2019 salary hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_162784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162784\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Teachers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162784\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Teachers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Teachers.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Teachers-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-162784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cIf you increase PHP10,000 for every teacher in this country, it will cost us PHP150 billion,\u201d said Panelo in a Palace briefing. (PNA File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The government needs to allocate approximately PHP150 billion to fund the salary hike for public school teachers, Malaca\u00f1ang bared on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said this was relayed to him by Education Secretary Leonor Briones through the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you increase PHP10,000 for every teacher in this country, it will cost us PHP150 billion,\u201d said Panelo in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo sought for more patience from teachers, but assured that funding their salary hike is still doable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appeal to our teachers that since this is a huge amount,\u00a0<em>medyo haba-habaan ninyo lang ang pasensiya, talagang maghahanap tayo ng pera para sa inyo<\/em>\u00a0(please extend your patience, we\u2019re really looking for funding for your salary hike),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s economic managers have already been instructed to look for sources of funding for their wage increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Iyong mga<\/em>\u00a0economic managers\u00a0<em>ginagawan ng paraan kung saan nila kukunin<\/em>\u00a0(economic managers are findings ways to get the source of funding),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo, meanwhile, reiterated Duterte\u2019s commitment to raise the wages of teachers the same way he did for military and police personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has committed himself and he has not renege on any commitment he has made during the presidential elections,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Panelo said teachers have a special place in the President\u2019s heart because his late mother, Soledad, was also a teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The government needs to allocate approximately PHP150 billion to fund the salary hike for public school teachers, Malaca\u00f1ang bared &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":161779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217468","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217472,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217468\/revisions\/217472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}