{"id":222030,"date":"2019-07-08T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T23:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222030"},"modified":"2019-07-08T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T23:40:45","slug":"drilon-optimistic-on-passage-of-bill-raising-teachers-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/08\/drilon-optimistic-on-passage-of-bill-raising-teachers-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilon optimistic on passage of bill raising teachers&#8217; salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144461\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/24293935_1707681505922790_8524761219799291759_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144461\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/24293935_1707681505922790_8524761219799291759_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/24293935_1707681505922790_8524761219799291759_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/24293935_1707681505922790_8524761219799291759_n-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;If we truly care about our country and its people, it would serve us well to invest in them. Devoting resources for their benefit means investing in our future,&#8221; Drilon said. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/photos\/a.815377408486542.1073741828.749071305117153\/1707681505922790\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/\">Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon is optimistic that the bill seeking to increase the salaries of public school teachers will be passed in the 18th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, Drilon said the &#8220;long-sought increase&#8221; in teachers&#8217; pay has been attracting bipartisan support in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we truly care about our country and its people, it would serve us well to invest in them. Devoting resources for their benefit means investing in our future,&#8221; Drilon said.<\/p>\n<p>Drilon filed his own version through Senate Bill 19, which proposes an entry-level salary for public school teachers of not less than PHP30,000 a month.<\/p>\n<p>The current monthly salary of an entry-level public school teacher (Teacher 1) is at PHP20,754.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should provide teachers with the right incentives to encourage them to remain in the noblest profession of educating and molding our youth to become productive citizens of this country,&#8221; Drilon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This proposed salary increase will invigorate our teachers as they help build the nation, one student, one classroom at a time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Drilon said the proposal aims to improve the performance of educators, thus resulting in a better quality of education.<\/p>\n<p>SB 19 also seeks to adjust the minimum basic salary received by entry level teachers in state universities and colleges to PHP31,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon is optimistic that the bill seeking to increase the salaries of public school teachers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":144461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222030","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=222030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222031,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222030\/revisions\/222031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}