Study on Salary Promotion for Public Teachers

The Letter of Instruction requires a study aimed at enabling the steady, reliable, competent and active participation of schoolteachers in building a “New Society.”
The Letter of Instruction emphasizes that schoolteachers have direct contact and the most powerful influence with the young.
The Letter of Instruction seeks to address an “anomalous condition” where teachers receive lower pay than janitors by ensuring salary standardization in the government.

The Letter of Instruction constitutes a Special Task Force composed of:
- The Secretary of Finance,
- The Secretary of Education and Culture,
- The Budget Commissioner,
- Presidential Assistant Guillerrao C. de Vega,
- A representative of the Philippine Public School Teachers Association (PPSTA).
The Letter of Instruction assigns the Task Force the duty to prepare a study of a salary promotion scheme for public schoolteachers.

The study must include specific sources of funding for any recommended plan for salary increase of public schoolteachers.
The study must include the rationale and justifications for any recommended salary increase plan.
The Letter of Instruction requires the Task Force to consider, as a primary factor, the role of schoolteachers in ensuring their participation in nation-building.
The study must bear in mind the government requirement under the proposed Constitution to provide the standardization of the salary of civil servants.

The salary promotion scheme prepared through the study is intended to be adopted for implementation for all public schoolteachers.
The intended implementation is effective next fiscal year, with provision for implementation if not possibly earlier.

The salary promotion scheme contemplated by the study is for all public schoolteachers.
The Letter of Instruction does not limit coverage to particular regions, divisions, or school categories; it frames the scheme as applicable to all public schoolteachers.

The Letter of Instruction directs the Task Force members—finance, education, budget, presidential assistance, and the PPSTA representative—to coordinate for the study.
The Letter of Instruction authorizes the study to be used later as a basis for preparing similar salary promotion schemes for all other employees of the Government.

The Letter of Instruction provides that the study may be used, in time, as a basis in preparing similar salary promotion schemes for all other employees of the Government.