ACT Teachers Partylist


The ACT Teachers Partylist is a political party representing teachers and education sector workers with a seat in the 15th and 16th Philippine Congress, and with two seats in the incoming 17th Philippine Congress. Its nominees for the 2016 elections are as follows: Rep. Antonio Tinio, Francisca Castro, Raymond Basilio, Dr. David Michael San Juan and Atty. Gregorio Fabros.
ACT Teachers Partylist is part of the left-wing Makabayan Bloc, 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 2 K to 12-related cases in 2015, and successfully securing a temporary restraining order against a government order that abolishes Filipino language subject in college. It also supported the popular clamor for 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, with the following personalities as officials: Dr. Bienvenido L. Lumbera ; Dr. Francis A. Gealogo ; Antonio L. Tinio ; April Valentin C. Montes ; Maria Katrina S. Santiago ; David Michael M. San Juan, Maria Teresa P. Tinio, Mikko James dC. Rodriguez, Neil L. Legaspi, Zenaida S. Lao and Atty. Gregorio T. Fabros.