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This act also established the Department of Public Instruction, headed by a General Superintendent. The implementation of this Act created a heavy shortage of teachers so the Philippine Commission authorized the Superintendent of Public Instruction to bring 500 teachers from the United States to the Philippines.
There are 876,842 public school teachers in the Philippines as of 2021. [109] The teacher-learner ratio in Philippine public schools in 2020 was 1:28 in public elementary schools, 1:25 in junior high school, and 1:29 in senior high school. [110] There are 500,000 teaching and non-teaching staff members in private schools as of 2022.
Manila Teachers won its first seat in the House of Representatives as a party-list group following the 2016 election. [2] The group's seat for the 17th Congress was filled by Virgilio Lacson. They were able to retain their seat for the 18th and 19th Congress , after securing sufficient votes in the 2019 and 2022 elections .
In 1996, the Department of Education initialized a 10-year modernization program, which included a computerization project and the School of the Future project. The modernization project aimed to implement information technology in the improvement of teaching and learning processes, as well as in educational management and operations.
As vice president, she was noted by political observers to continuously take a neutral stance on issues facing the government. [ 32 ] Arroyo resigned from the Cabinet in October 2000, distancing herself from Estrada, who was accused of corruption by a former political supporter, Chavit Singson , Governor of Ilocos Sur . [ 33 ]
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Standard Chartered is the biggest funder of the coal industry in the Philippines. [ 54 ] As part of its policy advocacy, Greenpeace Philippines released an open letter in 2019 urging President Rodrigo Duterte to declare a climate change emergency to make climate change and its impacts a top government priority.
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