Magna Carta

• Rights and Privileges of Teachers in the Philippines

  • 1987 Philippine Constitution
  • Republic Act 4670
  • Commonwealth Act No. 578
• Person in authority


  Teachers, professors, and persons charged with the supervision of public or duly recognized private schools, colleges, and universities
• 1987 Philippine Constitution, Section 5 (paragraph 5)


  The State shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education and ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment

  
• Commonwealth Act No. 578, Section 1


  In applying the provisions of articles one hundred forty-eight and one hundred fifty-one of this Code, teachers, professors, and persons charged with the supervision of public or duly recognized private schools, colleges, and universities, shall be deemed persons in authority

  
• Rights and Privileges under Republic Act 4670 (Magna Carta for Public School Teachers)

  • Consent for transfer
  • Safeguards in disciplinary procedure
  • No discrimination
  • Married couples to be employed in the same locality
  • Academic freedom
  • Not more than 6 hours of actual classroom teaching
  • Additional compensation for activities outside normal duties
  • Salaries comparable to other occupations to insure teachers a reasonable standard of life for themselves and their families
  • Salaries appropriated by local governments not to be less than those paid to teachers of the national government
  • Cost of living allowance
  • Special hardship allowances
  • Medical examination free of charge once a year during the teacher's professional life
  • Prohibition of unauthorized deduction from teachers salaries
  • Study leave
  • Indefinite leave
  • Salary increase upon retirement
  • Freedom to establish or join an organization of their choice

  
• The welfare of professional teachers has been given much attention
• There is no "absolute truthfulness" to what is often said about teachers "overworked and underpaid"
• Teachers are recognized by the State as essential agents of progress
• Teachers practice a noble profession