ACT Teachers Partylist welcomed the approval of a measure mandating the increase of teaching supplies allowance.

House Bill 9682 mandates the Department of Education to give each teacher P7,500 for the School Year 2024-2025, and P10,000 for the School Year 2025-2026 and onwards.

“This is one of my pet bills and I hope that Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would immediately sign it so that it would become law as soon as possible and public school teachers would have funds to purchase necessary teaching tools,” Rep. France Castro said.

The cash allowance, exempted from income tax, will be given to all public basic education teachers.

Based on the measure, funding for the teaching supplies will come from the Department of Education’s annual budget.

Under the bill, the allowance can be used to buy tangible or intangible teaching supplies and materials, pay incidental expenses, and implement or conduct various learning delivery modalities.