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Major Laws Which Stipulate The Current Philippine Educational System
Major Laws Which Stipulate The Current Philippine Educational System
Foundations of Education
Legal Bases of the Philippine Education System
Academic freedom in institutions in higher learning. (5.2,3,4.)
Assigning highest budget priority to education. (5.5.)
National language is Filipino. (6.1.)
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 6 A
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DECREE OF 1972
Goals of the Educational system. (2, a c)
1. To achieve and maintain an accelerating rate of economic development and
social progress.
2. To assure of maximum participation of all the people in the attainment and
enjoyment of the benefits of such growth.
3. To strengthen national consciousness and promote desirable cultural values
in a changing world.
Objectives of the Educational system. (3, a d)
Ten year program to attain the objectives. (4, a f)
Educational projects to attain objectives. (5, a g)
a. Management studies by the DEC.
b. Improvement of secondary schools which include services, facilities,
equipments and curriculum.
c. Upgrading and improvement of technical institutions, skill training
centers and other non-training programs for the out of school youth and
the unemployed.
d. Curriculum and staff development including mathematics and science
teaching.
e. Expansion of agricultural secondary and higher education programs.
f. Textbooks and instructional materials.
g. Assistance and incentives.
Working arrangements.
Financing the whole educational system.
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Legal Bases of the Philippine Education System
Goals
1. Achieve and maintain an accelerating rate of economic development and social
progress;
2. Assure the maximum participation of all people in the attainment and
employment of such growth, and
3. Achieve and strengthen national unity and consciousness and preserve, develop
and promote desirable culture, moral, and spiritual values in a changing world.
Aims
1. Provide for a broad general education that will assist each individual in the
peculiar ecology of his own society, to:
1.1. attain his potentials as human beings;
1.2. enhance the range and quality of individual and group participation in the
basic functions of society, and
1.3. acquire essential educational foundations of his development into a
productive and versatile citizen.
2. Train the nations manpower in the middle level skills required for national
development.
3. Develop the profession that will provide leadership for the nation in the
advancement of knowledge for improving the quality of human life, and
4. Respond effectively to changing needs and conditions of the nations through a
system educational planning and evaluation.
Rights and Duties of Parents in the Education of Children
1. Rights
1.1. Right to organize themselves and/or with teachers for the discussion
betterment of the school.
1.2. Right to access to any official record concerning the children who are under
their parental responsibility.
2. Duties
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
Duty to help carry out the educational objectives in accordance with national
goals.
Duty to enable their children to obtain elementary education and shall strive to
enable them to obtain secondary or higher education in the pursuance of the
right formation of the youth.
Duty to cooperate with the school in the implementation of the school
program.
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Legal Bases of the Philippine Education System
1. Rights
1.1.
1.2.
Right to freely choose their field of study subject to existing course therein up
to graduation, except in cases of academic deficiency or disciplinary
regulations.
1.3.
1.4.
Right of access to his own school records, the confidentiality of which the
school shall maintain and preserve.
1.5.
1.6.
1.7.
1.8.
1.9.
2. Duties
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
2.4.
Duty to participate actively in civic affairs, and in the promotion of the general
welfare.
2.5.
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The Department shall be responsible for the formulation, planning, implementation, and
coordination of policies, plans, programs and projects in the areas of formal and non
formal education at all levels: elementary, secondary, higher, technical vocational, non
formal, sports and culture.
RA 7722: HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1994
An act creating the Commission on Higher Education.
RA 7796: AN ACT CREATING THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF 1994
An act creating the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.
RA 9155: AN ACT INSTITUTINGA FRAMEWORK OF GOVERNANCE FOR BASIC
EDUCATION, ESTABLISHING AUTHORITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, RENAMING
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORTS AS THE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Authored by former senator Tessie Aquino Oreta.
DECS (Department of Education, Culture and Sports) was renamed DEPEd
(Department of Education).
Governance of Basic Education starts at National level, but it is in the Regional,
Division, District and School level where the policies and principles are translated
into projects, programs, and services developed, offered to fit local needs.
RA 4670: MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS (1966)
COVERAGE: All public school teachers
ELIGIBILITY:
A. Elementary School Teachers
1. BEED Graduate
2. PBET/LET Passer
B. Secondary School Teachers
1. BSE/ BSEd Graduate/ Bachelors Degree
2. 18 units in major subject/ 18 units of professional education subject
3. PBET/LET Passer
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Legal Bases of the Philippine Education System
Rights of Teachers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Legal Bases of the Philippine Education System
Laid the foundations of Philippine public school system and made English as the
language of instruction.
Established in the Philippine Normal School and Trade school in Manila, and an
Agricultural school in Negros.
RA 476
June 18, 1949
Converted the Philippine Normal School into a Teacher college and offered courses
leading to Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and Master of Arts in
education.
RA 7168
December 26, 1991
Converted the Philippine Normal School into a University.
RA 6655
Also known as the Free Public Secondary Education Act of 1988.
Public secondary schools were nationalized and they were reclassified by source of
funding and curriculum type.
DECS ORDER NO. 38, s. 1994
NSAT is required for all senior high school students.
PD 603
Required that every school division should organize special classes for children with
special needs.
RA 5250 (1966)
Provided a ten year teacher education program in Special education for the
teaching of the gifted, mentally retarded and those with behaviour problems.
Only two schools offered undergraduate in SPEd: UP COEd and CEU.
RA 7686
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Being paid in OJTs in private industries.
RA 7687
Scholarship programs for careers in science and technology.
PD 1006
September 22, 1976
Considered teachers as professionals and teaching promulgated as a profession.
Teachers need to pass the PBET before they could teach, whether in private or
public school.
PD 146
Required all high school graduates seeking admissions to post secondary degrees
necessitating a minimum of four years study to pass a national entrance
examination.
RA 7731
Abolished the NCEE to give the marginalized sector greater access to college
education.
RA 7743
Created the Center of Excellence in Teacher Education.
RA 7791
Stretched the school year from 185 200 days.
RA 1265
Made the observance of the flag ceremony compulsory,
RA 7836
An act professionalizing the teaching profession.
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Legal Bases of the Philippine Education System
Established the Licensure Examinations for Teachers.
RA 10157
Kindergarten Education Act
Provides the inclusion of the Kindergarten level into the basic education program. It
is a must that children must undergo kinder before entering grade 1.
Senate Bill 3286: Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2012
An addition of two years in the basic education.
Reference:
Foundations of Education 2 by Dr. Doris D. Tulio