THE General Appropriations Act , popularly known in journalese as the national budget, is the one yearly legislation regularly enacted by Congress without which the government cannot continue to exist. It defines the sources of official funds and the spending program of the government. No matter what other important measures Congress may enact, the government will not stand without it.
For the current school year, there are 21 million students enrolled, and 836,193 teachers employed, each one teaching 24 to 26 learners as the national average, but 52 in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and 20 in the Cordillera Autonomous Region, in classrooms that hold 35 students in primary school and 40 in junior and senior high school. The nation is supposed to be 90,000 teachers short.
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