On the first day of this school year, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) called anew for the increase in salary of public school teachers.
Another school year is set to open next week, but public schools were expected to struggle with same "age-old problems".
The Kabataan party-list criticized the restoring of the fees that were already stricken out of the list to be collected from students and said the move robbed students of the full benefit of government's free tertiary education.
As thousands of schools are expected to raise tuition and other school fees next school year, progressive youth organizations warned that government approval to another round of fee hikes “will only keep more youths out of schools.”
The Department of Education (DepEd) here will soon start to include the traffic regulations and public safety as a subject in public schools after the City Council approved the Traffic Regulations and Public Safety Module Ordinance of Davao City.