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The National Education Association (NEA) describes National Teacher Day as "a day for honoring teachers and recognizing the lasting contributions they make to our lives". [47] According to the NEA's history of National Teacher Day, [47] the origins of the day are murky. Around 1944, a Wisconsin teacher named Ryan Krug began corresponding with ...
The theme of World Teachers' Day 2023 is "The teachers we need for the education we want". Teachers are the heart of education and in many countries are leaving the profession they love, and fewer young people aspire to become one. UNESCO estimates that the world needs over 69 million new teachers by 2030, and the shortage only continues to ...
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT-Teachers) is a progressive national democratic mass organization of teachers, academics, and other education workers in the Philippines, established on June 26, 1982. It is the largest non-traditional teachers' organization in the country, and campaigns for the economic and political rights of teachers ...
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.
On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 9 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
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 .
Amending the Labor Code of the Philippines or PD 442 : Strengthening the Operations of the National Labor Relations Commission: 2016-01-15: 10742: Sangguniang Kabataan Reform Act of 2015: 2016-01-29: 10743: Declaring Every October 5 as National Teachers' Day: 2016-02-06: 10744: Credit Surety Fund Cooperative Act of 2015: 2016-02-26: 10745
June 14 – The Philippines' Hannah Arnold is ranked among the eight best national costumes in last year's Miss International pageant. [310] [311] June 15 – Shannon Robinson is crowned Miss Environment International in Mumbai, India. [312] June 16 – James Reggie Vidal finishes Second Runner-Up at the Man of the World 2023 pageant held in ...