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TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF THE 
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES    ) 
First Regular Session     
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
H.B. NO. _____ 
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE EMMARIE “LOLYPOP” OUANO-
DIZON 
AN ACT 
INSTITUTIONALIZING THE CAREER PROGRESSION SYSTEM 
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AND  
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The 1987 Constitution provides that “the State shall enhance the right of 
teachers to professional advancement. Non-teaching academic and non-academic 
personnel shall enjoy the protection of the State”. It also states that “the State shall 
assign the highest budgetary priority to education and ensure that teaching will 
attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through adequate 
remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment.” 
There is a need to update the system of career progression for public school 
teachers that is anchored on the achievement of qualifications and standards for 
professional growth and career advancement.   
This measure aims to create more opportunities for promotion for qualified 
teachers, boost teacher morale, drive motivation, incentivize high performance and 
uphold teacher quality through competency and merit-based promotion.  
In view of the foregoing, approval of this measure is earnestly sought. 
EMMARIE “LOLYPOP” OUANO-DIZON 
July 31, 2025
4:15 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. _____ 
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE EMMARIE “LOLYPOP” OUANO-
DIZON 
AN ACT 
INSTITUTIONALIZING THE CAREER PROGRESSION SYSTEM 
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AND  
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Career 
Progression System for Public School Teachers Act.” 
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is the declared policy of the State to 
enhance the right of teachers to professional advancement, and to ensure that 
teaching shall attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through 
adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment. 
To this end, the State shall implement just and equitable measures to provide 
competency-based promotion and salary increases to expand the welfare and 
professional growth of public school teachers while advancing the right of each 
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Filipino to quality education by ensuring that the system of professional 
advancement incentivizes the mastering of content, refining teaching competencies, 
and carefully analyzing a teacher’s own performance vis-à-vis their learners’ 
performance in order to implement the necessary changes to improve teaching and 
learning. 
 
SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. – As used in this Act: 
 
(a) Career Progression Line shall refer to individual tracks of professional 
advancement available to teachers under the Career Progression System; 
(b) Career Progression System shall refer to a framework of career 
advancement based on relevant and material qualitative and quantitative assessment 
tools; 
(c) Classroom Teaching Career Line shall refer to the career pathway of 
teachers involved in classroom teaching; 
(d) Comparative Assessment shall refer to a quality assessment involving 
multiple evaluation techniques to assess the competencies of teachers which shall be 
required as a prerequisite to a teacher’s promotion or increase of salary, as the case 
may be, as provided in Section 9 hereof; 
(e) Comprehensive Teacher Accreditation shall refer to a comprehensive 
assessment of teacher competencies and proficiency across established professional 
career stages, as provided in Section 10 hereof; 
(f) Current Career Progression System shall refer to the Career Progression 
Lines available to a teacher, which are existing and implemented prior to the 
effectivity of this Act; 
(g) Expanded Career Progression System shall refer to the Career Progression 
Lines for Teachers as provided in this Act; 
(h) Incumbent Head Teachers shall refer to teachers who are under the 
administrative Career Progression Line for Teachers prior to the effectivity of this 
Act; 
(i) School Administration Career Line shall refer to the career pathway of 
teachers involved in overall school management and operations, and instructional 
supervision; and 
(j) Teacher shall refer to all persons engaged in teaching at the elementary and 
secondary levels, whether on full-time or part-time basis, including industrial arts or 
vocational teachers and all other persons performing supervisory and/or 
administrative functions in all schools in the aforesaid levels and qualified to practice 
teaching under Republic Act No. 7836, or the “Philippine Teachers 
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SEC. 4. Institutionalization of the Career Progression System for Public 
School Teachers. – The Career Progression System for public school teachers is 
hereby institutionalized to promote professional development and career 
advancement among public school teachers, and define the Career Progression Line 
of teachers within the public school system, specifically in the elementary and 
secondary levels, including the Senior High School. 
 
SEC. 5. Expanded Career Progression for Public School Teachers. – The 
prospects for a career path for public school teachers in classroom teaching or school 
administration are hereby expanded. 
 
The positions of Teacher I to Master Teacher I shall form the base of the career 
system. Thereafter, a teacher may be promoted to either Master Teacher II in the 
classroom teaching career line or School Principal I in the school administration 
career line. 
 
For this purpose, the Civil Service Commission (CSC), Department of 
Education (DepEd), and Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) shall 
harmonize the qualification standards for teaching positions in all levels of the public 
school system, taking into consideration the Comprehensive Performance 
Assessment as mandated in this Act. The Department of Budget and Management 
(DBM) shall create the new teaching position titles of Teacher IV, Teacher V, 
Teacher VI, Teacher VII, and Master Teacher V, and include the same in the Index 
of Occupational Services, Occupational Groups, Classes, and Salary Grades. 
 
SEC. 6. Options of Incumbent Head Teachers. – All Incumbent Head 
Teachers may nominate to retain their positions and career progression line under 
the Current Career Progression, or otherwise apply for reclassification or retitling of 
their current position to the appropriate position under the Expanded Career 
Progression: Provided, That within one (1) year from the effectivity of this Act, all 
Incumbent Head Teachers shall file the appropriate application to retain their current 
Career Progression Line under the Current Career Progression, or to be reclassified 
or retitled under the Expanded Career Progression, as the case may be. 
 
For the purposes of this Act, the DepEd shall prepare a list of Incumbent Head 
33 Teachers who shall retain their current positions and Career Progression Line 
under the Current Career Progression. 
 
Once an Incumbent Head Teacher files an application for the reclassification 
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Career Progression, they can no longer revert to their previous Career Progression 
Line. 
 
All teachers, other than those Incumbent Head Teachers who shall file the 
appropriate application to retain their current positions and Career Progression Line, 
shall follow the Expanded Career Progression, as provided in this Act. 
 
No new item or position under the Current Career Progression for Incumbent 
Head Teachers shall be created hereafter. 
 
SEC. 7. Equivalence of Positions. – The positions in the Classroom Teaching 
Career Line shall be equivalent in terms of salaries, benefits, and other privileges to 
the School Administration Career Line, as follows: 
 
Classroom Teaching Career Line  
 
School Administration Career Line 
Master Teacher II   
 
 
 
Principal I 
Master Teacher III  
 
 
 
School Principal II 
Master Teacher IV  
 
 
 
School Principal III 
Master Teacher V   
 
 
 
School Principal IV 
 
SEC. 8. Non-Diminution in the Basic Salaries and Benefits of Incumbent 
Employees. – In no case shall there be a demotion in rank and/or diminution of 
salary, benefits and other privileges of incumbent employees granted under existing 
laws, decrees, orders or any contract, agreement or policy between employee and 
employer upon the implementation of this law. 
 
SEC. 9. Promotion of Teachers. – Teachers shall be promoted based on 
merit, fitness, and competence after a Comparative Assessment. Natural vacancy, 
quota, ratio-and-proportion, and the like shall no longer be considered as the basis 
for promotion. 
 
Such assessment may be conducted by an independent third party, who shall 
evaluate the teacher based on clear guidelines to be provided by the DepEd. 
 
The evaluation of teachers in the Classroom Teaching Career Line shall 
consider subject-area knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, professional standards 
for teaching practice and proficiency, and actual tangible impact on learners. 
 


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The evaluation of teachers in the School Administration Career Line shall 
consider organizational and managerial effectiveness, in terms of productivity, 
performance, utility, and efficiency. 
 
The DepEd shall formulate clear guidelines on the assessment of teachers 
seeking promotion. The assessment process, criteria, and point system shall be made 
available to the public in order to foster equal opportunity, transparency, and 
accountability. 
 
SEC. 10. Accreditation of Teachers. – A Comprehensive Teacher 
Accreditation System shall be institutionalized and administered by the Teacher 
Education Council (TEC) to assess teacher competencies and affirm the career 
stages achieved by teachers based on professional standards, including the 
institution, organization, and maintenance of a pool of national assessors for such 
accreditation or recognition. 
 
It shall also provide the actionable feedback to the teacher on what to improve 
on each aspect of evaluation. 
 
In no case that the immediate implementation of the Expanded Career 
Progression System be impeded, pending the creation of the independent third party 
and establishment of the Comprehensive Teacher Accreditation System. 
 
SEC. 11. Career Progression and Remedial Program for Teachers. – 
Teachers shall receive professional development programs to improve their 
competencies. Teachers who fail to pass the Comprehensive Teacher Accreditation 
for two (2) consecutive assessments shall be required to undergo a remedial 
program. 
 
For the purposes of this Act, the National Educators’ Academy of the 
Philippines shall develop a special remedial program for said teachers in order to aid 
in their development. 
 
SEC. 12. Availability of Funds for Promotion of Teachers. – The DBM 
shall ensure the availability of funds for the promotion of teachers, and the 
appropriate allocation of funds and inclusion in the General Appropriations Act for 
its immediate implementation. 
 
SEC. 13. Appropriations. – The amount necessary for the implementation 
of this Act shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act. 


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SEC. 14. Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). – Within ninety (90) 
days from the approval of this Act, the CSC, DBM, DepEd, and PRC shall jointly 
formulate and issue the rules and regulations necessary for the effective 
implementation of this Act. 
 
SEC. 15. Separability Clause. – If any part or provision of this Act is 
declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other parts not affected thereby shall 
continue to be valid and subsisting. 
 
SEC. 16. Repealing Clause. – All laws, presidential decrees, executive 
orders, presidential proclamations, rules and regulations or parts thereof contrary to 
or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or amended 
accordingly. 
 
SEC. 17. Effectivity. – Notwithstanding the non-issuance of the IRR, this Act 
shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a 
newspaper of general circulation. 
 
 
Approved,