Published April 14, 2021, 1:51 PM A group is urging the Department of Education (DepEd) to grant public school teachers with service credits and 25 percent overtime pay as the current school calendar necessitates them to render 77 days more working days than the mandated 220 school days in a school year. (Photo from ACT) “Our teachers have always given too much despite their circumstances, and they only ask for what is due them,” Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Secretary General Raymond Basilio. Despite this, Basilio alleged that teachers, especially in public schools, “have received little to no support from the government for all their efforts since the start of the pandemic.”