A resolution supporting House Bill No. 245, that  aims to increase the salary of public elementary and high school teaching personnel from P18,549 to P25,000 and non-teaching personnel from P9,000 to P15,000, was approved by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod Friday.

HB No. 245 is an “Act Increasing the Minimum Monthly Salaries of Public School Teachers to P25,000 and Non-Teaching Personnel to P15,000.”

The resolution authored by Councilor Archie Baribar said ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio filed House Bill 245 last year to raise the minimum monthly salary of public school teachers in elementary and secondary schools from P18,549 to P25,000 and for the non-teaching personnel, from P9,000 to P15,000 in the lower house, while Senator Juan Edgardo Angara filed Senate Bill 61 in the upper house.

It said Senate Bill No. 61, which seeks to upgrade teachers’ salary grade level to 19 (P33,859) from 11 (P18,549).

Teachers are now paid a minimum of P18,549 a month; Tinio’s House Bill will propose to raise this to P25,000. Even the minimum pay of non-teaching personnel will also be raised from P9,000 to P15,000 per month under the proposal, the resolution said.

Department of Education records for Academic Year 2012-2013, state that there are 377,831 public elementary school teachers and 169,743 public high school teachers in the country, it said.

Baribar said  teachers are being paid lower them other government professionals like the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

In August 2014, Education Secretary Armin Luistro said that the Department of Education is “one” with groups of public school teachers protesting against the non-inclusion of salary increase for teachers and other personnel in the 2015 national budget, Baribar said.*CGS

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