DepEd to hire 75,242 public school teachers for coming school year

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has green-lighted the creation of more than 75,000 new teaching positions for the upcoming school year, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said Wednesday.

"The DBM has approved the creation of 75,252 teaching positions for kindergarten/elementary, junior high school, and senior high school for school year 2018-2019," Diokno told reporters in a breakfast forum in Pasig City.

The creation of new teaching positions is in line with the request made by the Department of Education (DepEd) to address the inadequate number of teaching personnel in public schools across the country.

The funding requirements to cover the salaries and other forms of compensation for the new positions will be charged against the appropriations for the DepEd.

The DepEd has been allocated a budget of P553.31 billion this year, higher than the P543.186 billion last year.

Diokno said the DBM will release the budget once the new teaching positions have been filled.

Bulk of the needed 75,242 new teachers are for kindergarten and elementary with 40,642 teaching personnel to be hired. Around 34,244 new teachers are needed for junior high schools and 356 for senior high schools.

DBM Regional Offices and the DBM Organization, Position Classification, and Compensation Bureau will issue the corresponding notices of organization, staffing, and compensation action director to the DepEd-Division Offices for kinder, elementary, and senior high school and to the DepEd-Implementing Units for Junior High School positions based on the deployment records submitted by the Education department. —ALG, GMA News