Bill drafted for the office of Rep. Earlpe John M. Amante 1405

Introduction

With the implementation of the K-12 program, subjects from tertiary level will be literally transferred to the senior and junior high school level.  With the current shortage of faculty members for the high school level still numbering by the thousands, there would be an additional figure of tertiary faculty who will be displaced by the full implementation of the K-12 program.

If there is a current shortage for faculty for the high school level and there is an influx of displaced tertiary faculty coming from the college level, absorbing college faculty for high school teaching is logical.

The difficulty however is that more than 50% of displaced tertiary faculties do not have a license for high school teaching.  Majority of College teachers however have a Master’s Degree.  This act calls for the absorption of college teachers who do not have a license but possesses a Master’s Degree. 

AN ACT

ABSORBING DISPLACED COLLEGE FACULTY BY THE K-12 IMPLEMENTATION IN THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL

            SECTION 1. Title. – This act shall be known as the “Absorption of Teachers from College Teaching to High School Level”.

            SECTION 2.  Declaration of Policy. – Thousands of College Faculty will be displaced by the full implementation of the K-12 program, this act aims to mitigate the dislocation of teachers and their possible unemployment provided that they have a Master’s Degree and by waiving the licensure requirement.

            SECTION 3. Definitions. – As used in this act, the following terms shall mean:

            (a)  Master’s Degree– refers to a masterate degree earned from a credible and legitimate institution.

            SECTION 4.  Regulatory power.  All matters related to the retirement issues and cases will be under the Department of Education, Culture and Sports and Commission on Higher Education.

            SECTION 5.  Repealing clause.  All laws, decrees, executive orders, proclamations, rules and regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

            SECTION 6.  Separability clause.  If any provision of this act is held invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected hereby shall remain valid and subsisting.

            SECTION 7.  Effectivity.  This act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in at least two (2) national newspaper of general circulation.