Promotion eludes 600 teachers due to fake documents Buen Algono Cebu Daily News
November 14, 2006
Officials of the Civil Service Commission in Central Visayas (CSC-7) on Monday confirmed that they are hesitant to approve the appointment of 600 new teachers endorsed by the Department of Education (DepEd) after they learned that fake appointments and licenses have been discovered from among the documents that the teachers submitted.
CSC-7 Regional Director David Cabanag said there are about 1,000 fake appointments for public school teachers in the province.
This number did not include the more than 480 teachers whose appointments and promotions were earlier disapproved by CSC-7.
Of more than 600 applicants for promotion and appointments from June to October this year, only 120 of them were approved by CSC 7.
Cabanag said an investigation is being conducted by the CSC in coordination with the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). Cabanag said his office has submitted the names of the applicants for the position of Teacher 1 to PRC-7 to have their licenses verified before they are given an appointment to teach.
This was confirmed by PRC-7 Regional Director Dan Malayang.
Cabanag confirmed that he also disapproved applications for promotion to Teacher 2 and Teacher 3 because the applicants were short of the required three-year length of service in public schools.
The CSC, he said, wanted the DepEd to be strict in implementing its own merit selection program.
Cebu Division Superintendent Recaredo Borgonia, however, said he hoped the PRC 7 would reconsider its decision.
Borgonia argued that because of the severe shortage of teachers, they had to adjust their own compliance to DepEd’s merit selection plan to fill up the vacancy for teachers.
Borgonia also admitted that there were applicants who failed to present their licenses.
“But they were already presumed as licensed teachers after they were able to present a certificate from PRC 7 that they passed the teachers board,” he said.
