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ACT Teachers Partylist
The ACT Teachers Partylist is a political party representing teachers and education sector workers with a seat in the 15th and 16th Philippine Congress, and with two seats in the 17th Philippine Congress. It is represented in the 18th Philippine Congress by educator and trade union organizer France Castro Francisca L. Castro (born 1966) is a Filipino educator, trade union activist, and politician. She is a member of the Philippine House of Representatives under the Alliance of Concerned Teachers party-list. In Congress, she is among the principa .... ACT Teachers Partylist is part of the left-wing Makabayan Bloc, and is known for its active campaign for salary hikes for teachers, successful tax reduction initiatives, optional poll service duty for teachers, and lowering of optional retirement age of public school teachers. ACT Teachers Partylist is also an active proponent of the Supreme Court cases against the Philippine government's K to 12 system, co-filing at least tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. when showing a colleague how to perform a specific task). In some countries, teaching young people of school age may be carried out in an informal setting, such as within the family (homeschooling), rather than in a formal setting such as a school or college. Some other professions may involve a significant amount of teaching (e.g. youth worker, pastor). In most countries, ''formal'' teaching of students is usually carried out by paid professional teachers. This article focuses on those who are ''employed'', as their main role, to teach others in a ''formal'' education context, such as at a school or other place of ''initial'' formal education or training. Duties and functions A teacher's role may vary among cultures. Teachers may provide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left-wing Politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political%20ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished. Left-wing politics are also associated with popular or state control of major political and economic institutions. According to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, left-wing supporters "claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated." Within the left–right political spectrum, ''Left'' and ''right-wing politics, Right'' were coined during the French Revolution, referring to the seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makabayan
Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan; ) is a coalition of twelve party-lists in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It was founded on April 16, 2009. The founding assembly was held at UP Theatre, Diliman, Quezon City. Party-lists Thirteen party-lists are part of Makabayan: * Bayan Muna * Teachers: Alliance of Concerned Teachers * Workers and peasants: Anakpawis * Women: GABRIELA (General Assembly Binding Women for Integrity, Reform, Equality, Leadership and Action) Women's party * Youth: Kabataan * Indigenous people: Katribu * Migrants: Migrante * Children's rights: Akap-bata * Government employees: COURAGE (Confederation for Unity Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees) * Drivers: Piston * Green party: Kalikasan * Bicolano people: Aking Bikolnon * Moro people: Suara Bangsamoro In 2016, the Commission on Elections disqualified the Akap Bata and Katribu partylists for failure to acquire the necessary votes. Coalition Makabayan also includes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rally Vs Oil Price Hike ACT Teachers Cong Castro
Rally or rallye may refer to: Gatherings * Demonstration (political), a political rally, a political demonstration of support or protest, march, or parade * Pep rally, an event held at a United States school or college sporting event Sports * Rallying, a category of motorsport * Rally (tennis), a sequence of shots in tennis * Rally obedience (also rally-O), a dog sport * Rally scoring, a point scoring system common in racket and net sports ** Rally point system, the system of scoring points in volleyball * Rally Cycling, a UCI ProTeam professional road cycling squad Vehicles * SOCATA Rallye, a French-built light aircraft * Rotec Rally, an American ultralight aircraft * Automobiles Rally, a defunct French sports cars manufacturer Other uses * Rally (''How I Met Your Mother''), a 2014 episode of the TV series ''How I Met Your Mother'' * Rally's, another brand of the American fast-food restaurant chain Checkers * Windows Rally, a network simplification technology p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of The Philippines
The Congress of the Philippines ( fil, Kongreso ng Pilipinas, italic=unset) is the legislature of the national government of the Philippines. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives, although colloquially the term "Congress" commonly refers to just the latter, and an upper body, the Senate of the Philippines, Senate. The House of Representatives meets in the Batasang Pambansa Complex, Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City while the Senate meets in the GSIS Building in Pasay. The Senate is composed of 24 senators half of which are elected every three years. Each senator, therefore, serves a total of six years. The senators are elected at-large and do not represent any geographical district. In the current 19th Congress of the Philippines, 19th Congress, there are 316 seats in the House of Representatives. The Constitution of the Philippines, Constitution states that the House "shall be composed of not more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th Congress Of The Philippines
The 18th Congress of the Philippines ( fil, Ikalabingwalong Kongreso ng Pilipinas), composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives, met from July 22, 2019, until June 1, 2022, during the last three years of Rodrigo Duterte's presidency. The convening of the 18th Congress of the Philippines, Congress followed the 2019 Philippine general election, 2019 general elections, which replaced half of the Senate membership and the entire membership of the House of Representatives. Leadership Senate *President of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate President: **Tito Sotto (Nationalist People's Coalition, NPC), July 22, 2019 – June 30, 2022 *President pro tempore of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate President ''pro tempore'': **Ralph Recto (Nacionalista Party, Nacionalista), July 22, 2019 – June 30, 2022 *Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines, Majority Floor Leader: **Juan Miguel Zubiri (Independent po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Castro
Francisca L. Castro (born 1966) is a Filipino educator, trade union activist, and politician. She is a member of the Philippine House of Representatives under the Alliance of Concerned Teachers party-list. In Congress, she is among the principal authors of Republic Act 11466, which increased the minimum monthly salary of nurses in the Philippines. Castro is the former secretary general of ACT. In 2019, she was awarded the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights for her work organizing teachers and the Febe Velasquez Trade Union Rights Award for her work in defense of trade unions and human rights. Early life and education Castro’s father was a driver and her mother was a housewife. Castro and her four siblings all graduated from public schools. Castro took BSE Math at the Philippine Normal University where she graduated cum laude. She had intended to become an accountant but her family could not afford to send her to a private school. In college, she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanggol Wika
Tanggol Wika or Alyansa ng Mga Tagapagtanggol ng Wikang Filipino (Alliance of Defenders of the Filipino Language) is a Philippine-based organization founded in 2014 in an assembly of more than 300 professors, students, writers and cultural activists at the De La Salle University-Manila, as a response to the abolition of formerly mandatory Filipino language subjects in Philippine colleges and universities because of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Memorandum Order No. 20, Series of 2013, which implements a new General Education Curriculum (GEC) as part and parcel of the Philippine government's adoption of the Kindergarten to 12 years of basic education or K to 12 program. In its founding manifesto, Tanggol Wika listed the following objectives as its main advocacies: 1) Retain the teaching of Filipino language subjects in the new Philippine General Education Curriculum (GEC) in college; 2) Revise Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Memorandum Order 20. series of 2013; and 3) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pork Barrel Scam
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development projects of the Philippine government, mostly on the national level. The scam was first exposed in the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' by Nancy C. Carvajal on July 12, 2013, with the six-part exposé of Carvajal pointing to businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles as the scam's mastermind after Benhur K. Luy, her second cousin and former personal assistant, was rescued by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on March 22, 2013, four months after he was detained by Napoles at her unit at the Pacific Plaza Towers in Bonifacio Global City. Initially centering on Napoles' involvement in the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Of Concerned Teachers
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT-Teachers) is a progressive and militant 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 and other education workers as well as on wider social and political issues. History In 1989, ACT succeeded in its campaign for higher wages of $32 a month as well as improved benefits for teachers. This was achieved after public school teachers went on strike from July 24 to August 12. On September 30, 2005, national council member of the ACT Vitoria Samonte was murdered, an act which was called a human rights violation. Another national council member, Napoleon Pornasdoro, was murdered on February 27, 2006. They were also general secretary of the Southern Tagalog Teachers for Development. Objectives ACT's stated objective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
