1. Republic Act No.

4670 June 18, 1966 - the MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC

SCHOOL TEACHERS
2. Republic Act No. 6655 - "Free Public Secondary Education Act of 1988."
3. Republic Act No. 7722 - The Higher Education Act of 1994, was signed into
law by former President Fidel Valdez Ramos on May 18, 1994, creating the Commission
on Higher Education (CHED)
4. Republic Act No. 7796 - Technical Educational and Skills Development Act of
1994 or the TESDA Act of 1994.
Republic Act No. 7877 - "Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995."
Republic Act No. 8292 - The Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997
Republic Act No. 8972 - Solo Parents Welfare Act of 2000
Republic Act No. 9155 - "Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001."
*From DECS DepED
9. Republic Act No. 9262 - Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children
5.
6.
7.
8.

Act of 2004.
10. Republic Act No. 9293

- An act amending R. A. NO. 7836, known as the

"PHILIPPINE TEACHERS PROFESSIONALIZATION ACT OF 1994"

11. Republic Act No. 9442 - An act amending R.A. No. 7277, known as MAGNA
CARTA FOR DISABLED PERSONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
12. Republic Act No. 9994 - "Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010."
13. Republic Act No. 10533 - Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013. K-12
14. Executive Order No. 356, s. 2004 renaming the Bureau of Non-Formal
Education to Bureau of Alternative Learning System (ALS)
15. PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO 1006 Professionalization of Teachers,
Regulating their Practice in the Philippines and for other purposes

Educational Decree of 1863 Spanish time

On December 20, 1863, Spain promulgated an educational decree for reforming the educational
system in the Philippines.
During the early Spanish occupation, education for the Filipino people centered on religion and
primarily for the elite, especially in the first years of Spanish colonization.

Prior to that, early Filipinos taught their children at home, focusing more on vocational skills
than academics. There were also tribal tutors, but there was no structured educational system.
With the enactment of the Educational Decree of 1863, it liberalized access to education, which
provided for the establishment of at least one primary school for boys and girls in each town
under the responsibility of the municipal government.
Act No. 74, Education Act of 1901 American time
[No. 74.] AN ACT establishing a Department of Public Instruction in the Philippine Islands,
and appropriating forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for the organization and maintenance of a
normal, and a trade school in Manila, and fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the organization
and maintenance of an agricultural school in the island of Negros for the year 1901
*to bring to Philippines 600 American teachers Thomasites
BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG 232 - "Education Act of 1982."
An Act providing for the Establishment and Maintenance of an Integrated System of
Education
Batas Pambansa (BP) Blg. 232, more popularly known as the Education Act of 1982, signed
into law by then President Ferdinand Marcos on September 11, 1982. This seminal law
governs both formal and non-formal education systems in public and private schools in all
levels of instruction in the country.
The Education Act of 1982 created the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports which later
became the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) in 1987 by virtue of
Executive Order No. 117.

PHILIPPINE EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA)

What is EFA 2015 Plan?
The Philippine Education For All (EFA) 2015 is a vision and a holistic program of reforms that
aims at improving the quality of basic education for every Filipino by 2015.