‘Restore P3.2-B budget for teachers’home/News/Nation/‘Restore P3.2-B budget for teachers’THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked the Senate-House bilateral budget committee to reinstate the P3.2-billion budget for teachers who will serve in the midterm elections in May. “I don’t understand why Budget department slashed it to P1.9 billion from P3.2 billion, considering that it was supported by documents to support the amount we are asking. It was based on headcount, on the number of teachers that will serve in the elections,” Jimenez explained. Jimenez said there were solutions floated, but the superior solution was really to have a budget. The Comelec has been allotted a P25 billion budget for the midterm polls, the bulk of which went to automation.

Source: Manila Times February 01, 2019 17:37 UTC