TO BOOST teachers’ morale and recognize their contributions, Senator Francis Tolentino filed a bills that seeks to provide scholarship grants to public school teachers and their children.

Tolentino, in filing Senate Bill 399, said that allowing public educators and their qualified children to have free access to different study grants will entice more teachers to render service in the public school system.

“In turn, more teachers would educate our growing number of public school students, enabling better quality of education to Filipinos and consequently resulting to more productive members of society,” he said.

The measure mandates the provision of scholarship grants to eligible public school teachers to obtain masters, doctorate, or post-graduate education related to the subjects or courses they are teaching.

The scholarship grants can be availed of in educational institutions operated by the Philippine government or its political subdivisions.

Meanwhile, children of eligible public school teachers shall automatically be given scholarship grants covering their elementary, secondary, and tertiary education.