THE 1987 CONSTITUTION states it pretty clearly:
“The State shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education and ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment.”
But things being the way they are, and the Supreme Court being the way it is, does this automatically mean that the Education department must always get the largest appropriation from the yearly budget?
For example, is it possible that the allocation for debt servicing may be larger than the allocation for the Department of Education?
Find out how the Supreme Court decided this question by visiting the PCIJ’s MoneyPolitics Online database, or clicking this direct link.