{"id":41827,"date":"2015-02-11T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41827"},"modified":"2015-02-11T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T03:13:12","slug":"solon-pushes-salary-increase-for-k-12-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/solon-pushes-salary-increase-for-k-12-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon pushes salary increase for K -12 teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22333\" style=\"width: 300px\" 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-medium wp-image-22333\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/public-school-teachers-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Laguna School Systems\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Laguna School Systems<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Two lawmakers are now pushing\u00a0for an increase in the basic pay of public school teachers in a bid to ensure that there will be enough tutors under the K to 12 (K-12)\u00a0program of the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Pasig Rep. Roman Romulo and Sorsogon Rep. Evelina Escudero are eyeing to increase the teachers&#8217; basic pay from\u00a0P18,000 to P28,000 and P30,000.<\/p>\n<p>The amount is at par with the salary of college faculty members and nonteaching officials.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with the Foundation for Upgrading the Standard of Education (FUSE), Romulo said \u201cCongress is working to enact remedial measures to help mitigate the effects of K-12.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the move to increase teachers&#8217; compensation will ensure that there will be enough teachers for\u00a0higher grade levels.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Escudero,\u00a0widow of former legislator and FUSE president Salvador Escudero shared the government&#8217;s plan to hire\u00a09,000 teachers and build 31,000 classrooms this year in preparation for the start of K-12.<\/p>\n<p>Escudero also said that the lawmakers\u00a0\u201care already looking at some ways to respond to these anticipated needs\u201d of the K-12 program which adds two more years in high school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Two lawmakers are now pushing\u00a0for an increase in the basic pay of public school teachers in a bid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41827","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=41827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}