THE TEACHERS’ Dignity Coalition has submitted its 13-point agenda to the candidates for president, vice president, senators and some party-list nominees.

Benjo Basas, the group’s chairperson, said their agenda focused on the rights and welfare of students and teachers such as salary increase, implementation of the 1966 Magna Carta for Public School Teachers, compensation for those affected by Covid19, free post graduate education, provision of free laptop computers and internet services, and the creation of a separate insurance system and hospital for teachers.

“We have demands on learning itself, such as improvements in the curriculum, reduction of class size, provision of books and other materials and facilities and adequate funding for the safe return to normal school operation,” Basas added.

The TDC, along with ally Ating Guro Party-list, one of the groups the Comelec denied participation in May elections, will intensify the campaign for the items in their agenda and maximize the elections to ventilate those issues, he said.

“We want to see that after this election, the issues of education will finally be put at center stage, of equal urgency as pandemic management, economic plans and foreign policy platforms of the newly elected officials, both in the executive and the legislature,” Basas said.