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The ACT Teachers Partylist is a political party representing teachers and education sector workers with a seat in the 15th and 16th
The ACT Teachers Partylist is a political party representing teachers and education sector workers with a seat in the 15th and 16th Philippine Congress
The Congress of the Philippines ( fil, Kongreso ng Pilipinas, italic=unset) is the legislature of the national government of the Philippines. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, although colloquially the ter ...
, and with two seats in the 17th Philippine Congress. It is represented in the 18th Philippine Congress by educator and trade union organizer France Castro
Francisca L. Castro (born 1966) is a Filipino educator, trade union activist, and politician. She is a member of the Philippine House of Representatives under the Alliance of Concerned Teachers party-list. In Congress, she is among the principa ...
. ACT Teachers Partylist is part of the left-wing Makabayan Bloc
Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan; ) is a coalition of twelve party-lists in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It was founded on April 16, 2009. The founding assembly was held at UP Theatre, Diliman, Quezon City.
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, and is known for its active campaign for salary hikes for teachers, successful tax reduction initiatives, optional poll service duty for teachers, and lowering of optional retirement age of public school teachers.
ACT Teachers Partylist is also an active proponent of the Supreme Court cases against the Philippine government's K to 12 system, co-filing at least two K to 12-related cases in 2015, and successfully securing a temporary restraining order (TRO) against a government order that abolishes Filipino language subject in college. It also supported the abolition of the corruption-prone pork barrel system in the Philippine congress.
ACT Teachers Partylist was founded by members and affiliates of Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Philippines on January 5, 2008, in an assembly at Quezon City.
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{{Political parties in the Philippines Party-lists represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines Left-wing parties in the Philippines