DepEd to hire 60,000 teachers this year

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Education (DepEd) on Friday announced that 60,000 new teaching positions will be opened this year.

DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro said that the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) also approved the funding of teachers being redeployed from schools with excess teacher items to areas with shortages.

Luistro said the DBM has made available 61,510 new teacher items for this year to address the demand for teachers on account of increasing enrolment in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide.

"We welcome the opening of new teacher items and the provision of teacher redeployment allowance as part of the government’s continuing effort to rationalize teacher placement in all public schools across the country," Luistro said.

Based on DepEd Order No. 23, teachers to be redeployed shall receive a one-time allowance of P18,000.

Only teachers who are coming from schools with excess teacher item and are being redeployed to schools with teacher shortage shall receive the redeployment allowance.

Heads of schools with identified excess teachers should prepare an inventory of teaching staff that contains information on the grade/year level being handled and subject being taught by the excess teacher and ranked in ascending order--the first in the list being the most junior.

Any teacher from schools with excess teacher items may express willingness to be redeployed by writing a letter of intent to their respective division/city superintendents.

The superintendents can also identify teachers from the surplus list and may require these excess teachers to be redeployed to schools with shortage.