through the Senate and is scheduled for final approval by the House of Representatives after being certified urgent by President Rodrigo Duterte.
That amount is well below the P10,000 the President himself had once pledged, and will quickly be eaten up by inflation and the loss of their tax-exempt status, according to the Alliance of Concerned Teachers and the Teachers’ Dignity Coalition . It passed House Bill No. 5712 in less than 10 minutes without taking questions from teachers or other parties.
A bill filed by Quezon City Rep. Alfred Vargas in July, for example, proposed an increase in monthly pay to P45,269 over seven years. Castro’s own bill, which proposed a P30,000 base pay, had more than 60 coauthors in the 16th Congress.
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