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DepEd looks into plan to hike poll allowance

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THE Department of Education on Thursday said it is  looking into a proposal to increase or double the allowance of teachers who will serve in next year’s elections.

“The budget for these teachers would be under the Comelec [Commission on Elections] budget, but as far as I know there is already a request made,” Education Secretary Armin Luistro said.

Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista earlier said they would definitely look into increasing the honoraria of teachers who would be volunteering to serve as Board of Election Inspectors during the elections. 

“We will definitely look into increasing their honorarium,” Bautista said. 

Assistant Education Secretary Reynaldo Laguda said they were still waiting for the Comelec’s advice on the preparations to be made for the elections.

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“The preparations will come some time after the school ends,” Laguda said. 

“Then we can conduct seminars for the teachers on how to use the [election] machines, but the preparations will be on a regional basis.

Laguda said there would be no problems about teachers serving as Board of Election Inspectors once they had finished working on the implementing rules and regulations of the proposed House Bill 5412, also known as the Election Service Reform Act. 

He said they were anticipating the full automation of the 2016 elections, which would only require 300,000 teachers.

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