QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 10184)
It directs the payment of clothing allowances to female public school teachers, to enable them to purchase uniforms, despite earlier limitations in funding.
All female public school teachers employed by the national government in the elementary schools and national high schools.
P150 each per annum.
It shall be charged to savings in the programmed appropriations for current operating expenditures in the budget of the Department of Education and Culture.
Local governments are authorized to grant a similar allowance for teachers in local schools, and the cost shall be charged to budgetary savings of local government units, including savings in amounts released to them as national government aid for local schools.
Effective in Calendar Year 1978.
A first installment shall be paid immediately out of budgetary savings in Calendar Year 1977.
The unpaid balance shall be paid from budgetary savings realized in 1978.
Beginning CY 1979, the budget of the Department of Education and Culture shall provide specifically for the clothing allowance requirement.
Yes. Female teachers in barrio high schools and nursery schools and in community colleges may likewise draw clothing allowances, chargeable to the same DEC budgetary savings.
They shall be paid in cash.
The guidelines must not be so specific as to effectively require the purchase of a specific manufacturer’s product or a specific brand.
Exploring a linkage arrangement among the Development Bank of the Philippines, textile manufacturers, and the national government, to be recommended to the President.
The Secretary of Education and Culture, the Commissioner of the Budget, and the Chairman of the Development Bank of the Philippines must explore it and submit recommendations to the President.
Fifty-two million, five hundred thousand pesos (P52.5 million), more or less.
About 350 thousand school teachers.
To issue rules and regulations on the identification and use of savings and the release of funds for public school teachers, in the stated amount.
To issue rules and regulations pertaining to schools supported by local government units.