Date of Birth: June 28, 1944
Place of Birth:
Status: Married
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
High School:
College: National Security Administration,
Liberal Arts major in Literature & History, Assumption Convent
International Studies degree, Ciudad Ducal (
TRACK RECORD:
1987-1998 (8th to 10th Congress) Representative-Malabon-Navotas
after earning a master’s degree in National Lieutenant Colonel (Reserved), Philippine
Security Administration Air Force
Chairman, Committee on Social Services
Board Member, Ninoy Aquino Movement Program for Social and Economic Reconstruction Thru Volunteer Service
Founding Member and Chairperson, Action Line Foundation Inc.
Media Coordinator, LABAN (1978 Election)
Founding Member of Laban ng Masang Pilipino
1987-1998 Member, Executive Committee of LABAN
ATTENDANCE*
Total Sessions | Present | Absent | ||
12th Congress | ||||
First Session | 83 | 69 | 10 | 4 |
Second Session | 92 | 69 | 6 | 17 |
11th Congress | ||||
First Session | 100 | 74 | 1 | 25 |
First Session | 100 | 74 | 4 | 18 |
First Session | 53 | 41 | 7 | 5 |
* There were days that roll call was dispensed with; M=official mission/business
PLATFORM:
Education, women and children
CITATIONS AND LIABILITIES:
“Education is the key to the improvement of the quality of life of Filipinos.”
This is the truism Senator Teresa “TAO” Aquino-Oreta maintained as Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Education, Arts and Culture of the 11th Congress, and still maintains even as she handles a different committee in the 12th Congress. It is with this principle that Senator Aquino-Oreta has vigorously sought to improve the employment status, working conditions, and welfare benefits of public school teachers.
“I want to take care of the teacher so that the teacher in turn will take care of our children, so in turn our children will take care of the future of the country,” she has often said.
A strong advocate of women’s health empowerment, she authored Republic Act 6864 eventually led to the creation of the MAKATAO Center for Women Center / San Lorenzo District Hospital for women in Malabon in March 1998. The center and hospital seek to provide integrated health services, health education and counseling.
Senator Aquino-Oreta is guided by her Seven-Point-Agenda which accounts for her thrusts in the legislature:
The Filipino Child First. “We need to guarantee that the Filipino child will be nurtured in an environment conducive to infant survival, growth and physical development.”
Caring for Our Teachers. “No education reform will succeed unless it is a reform of the teaching-learning process and is focused on helping the teacher become a better teacher.”
Governing Basic Education. “Promulgate instead a policy framework for the governance of basic education which shall adhere to a principle of shared governance, the adoption of decentralized system of basic education and the establishment of opportunities for local school initiatives.”
Modernizing Education. “The new age of learning will bring fresh views, new looks and different shapes of schooling and schools.”
Universalizing Literacy. “It is easy to be self-complacent with very high literacy rates that are officially reported to be 94%. Yet it is disturbing to know that the other side of this so-called ‘achievement’ is the fact that almost 11 million Filipinos have very poor or even no literacy and numeracy skills at all.”
Rationalizing Tertiary Education. “I am alarmed with statistics that only 16.2 of every 100 students in both public and private schools who began in Grade 1 in any given schools year subsequently reached 4th year college. What immediately comes to my mind with such discouraging figures are not the faces of those who made it but rather of those who did not. When 83.8 of 100 students do not survive one wonders if this reflects a failure of the students or of a system of education that over the years has become both ineffective and inefficient.”
Policy Research. “There is a need to look for data about education legislation in order to make sure that they are implemented and that they benefit our learners.”
Early 1999, Project TAO, for Teachers’ Advancement for Optimum Well-being, was launched. This is the nationwide survey of the employment status, working conditions, and welfare benefits of public school teachers – the most comprehensive study of its kind in the history of the Philippine education. It is meant to give a face and a name for every statistical data on teachers for any given locality. The database has already been completed and turned over to the Department of Education, Culture and Sports for them to periodically update and improve on where necessary.
The success of this undertaking is being parlayed to another study on the computer readiness of all primary and secondary schools, public and private, (Project TAO CARES) with the end view of interconnecting them with the DECS Central Office database. Also, school heads, principals and schools division superintendents were trained in the effective administration of schools (Project TAO LEADS) in direct response to the Project TAO findings, as well as the changing needs of the school environment.
Senator Aquino-Oreta is also responsible for enabling the issuance of pay slips for public school teachers for the first time in August 2000. This she pushed for, immediately upon learning that the teachers were kept in the dark of any deductions from their salaries by the simple absence of this basic document.
STAND ON CHARTER CHANGE ISSUE:
Angara refused to disclose how members of the committee but during an interview with dzRH, he had said that the eight who voted for the constitutional convention mode were Senate President Pro Tempore Juan Flavier, Majority Leader Loren Legarda, Senators Francis Pangilinan, Ramon Magsaysay Jr., Tessie Aquino-Oreta, Ramon Revilla, John Osmeña and Aquilino Pimentel Jr.
http://www.asianjournal.com/cgi-bin/view_info.cgi?code=00000084&category=NW
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