Section 9Sec./Art. 9

Personnel Recruitment and Incentives. The Open High School Teachers and Teacher Advisers who shall render service under the OHSS shall be enlisted from those who are currently teaching in the mother high school that is implementing the program.

The Community Advisers and the Source Persons shall be hired by the LGU and shall receive honoraria, to be arranged with the local school board in accordance with the guidelines it shall issue in consultation with the DepED: Provided, That upon full implementation of the K to 12 Curriculum, particularly on Senior High School, the specific Division of the DepED which has authority over the mother high school, shall be responsible in hiring the Source Persons and in giving their compensation.

The DepED shall prioritize qualified locally-hired teachers who have been performing the functions of Open High School Teachers prior to this Act in the hiring of additional Open High School Teachers.