Teachers

Tens of thousands of striking teachers and supporters marched in Los Angeles on Friday, as talks to end the crippling walkout offered hope of a settlement between the union and school district officials.

On page 11 of an application to work at a private Christian school in Virginia, teachers are bluntly asked to pledge to "maintain a lifestyle based on biblical standards of moral conduct."

Education Secretary Leonor Briones said on Friday that all teaching and non-teaching personnel will receive a P3,000 bonus in celebration of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) anniversary on December 20.

It is high time the Duterte government make good on its commitment to uplift the status of teachers.

Students and teachers in South Korea will need to find new ways of staying alert through the long school day, after the government said Friday it will ban coffee sales in schools.

Over 3,000 teachers in Quezon City got their wish after the local government gave them lapel mics to aid in teaching.

A Dakar court jailed a group of teachers for up to five years for cheating in high school exams, a lawyer for the defendants said on Thursday.

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s reported plan to implement mandatory drug tests for teachers and students in Grade 4 and up has legal basis, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said Thursday.

China needs around 100,000 Filipino English teachers because it wants its citizens to learn the language of the superpower it’s about to conquer.

An official of the Department of Education (DepEd) said on Monday that a big percentage of schools nationwide is now ready for the opening of classes on June 4.

President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to raise the salaries of public school teachers but conceded that he cannot double their pay, unlike policemen and soldiers.

A teachers' protest entered its second day in the US state of Oklahoma on Tuesday as lawmakers faced a spreading schoolhouse revolt against a decade of deep cuts to public education.

Commission on Higher Education chairperson Patricia Licuanan has resigned from her post, six months before her term ends.

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque has admitted there are no concrete details yet about increasing the salaries of teachers.

While teachers could count themselves among the beneficiaries of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) via higher pay, the controversial tax law is not the only reason for their salary increase.

The take home pay of teachers will increase this year due to the TRAIN (Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion) Act, plus increases in their allowances, the Department of Education (DepEd) noted Friday.

Here's good news for the country's public school teachers: Starting January, they will get an increase in their "chalk allowances" next year, via an amendment introduced to the 2017 budget by Sen. Panfilo Lacson.

Senator Ralph Recto, co-author of a bill seeking to increase by the teachers’ chalk allowance said he is confident that the measure will be approved

Following a spate of bomb threats that disrupted classes in parts of the country, the Department of Education appealed to the public Wednesday to stop spreading unverified information.

The doomsday scenario of mass teacher displacement as a result of the K-12 program did not come to pass.

Senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV is pushing for the passage of Senate Bill No. (SBN) 90, or the Salary Standardization IV in the light of the recent pronouncement of President Rodrigo Duterte on increasing the salary of teachers,…

The Department of Labor and Employment on Wednesday committed to investigate the retrenching of teachers in schools, including fast-tracking an investigation into the layoff of teachers at Miriam College.

State universities  and colleges (SUCs) are in dire need of hiring 17,057 teachers just to meet the minimum number of faculty members needed to teach an average class of college students, according to a 2014  survey of the Philippine…