By PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA — Sen. Manuel “Lito” Lapid has proposed to grant free college education to children of public elementary and secondary school teachers.
Under Lapid’s Senate Bill 2416, the said teachers will be exempted from paying the tuition and other miscellaneous fees of one of their children enrolled in a state college or university.
Under the bill’s Section 3, however, two children can avail themselves of free college education if both parents are public school teachers.
Currently, the average college tuition is P60,000, Lapid said, citing a report.
A public school teacher, however, gets a minimum monthly salary of only P18,500, the senator lamented.
“It is important to provide non-wage benefit to public elementary and high school teachers to ensure that they will still be able to send their children to college (even with) the rising cost of tertiary education,” he said./PN
