REPUBLIC ACTS FOR TEACHERS

REPUBLIC ACT No. 137

-Board of Textbooks. It provided for all public schools to use only those books approved by the
board for a period of six years from the date of their adoption.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 1425
-The inclusion of a course on the life, works and writings- especially the Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo of Dr. Jose Rizal in the curricula of all public and private schools.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 4670
-The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers.
REPUBLIC ACT 1079
-Commonwealth Act No.117
-Civil Service Eligibility shall be permanent and shall be valid throughout a person’s lifetime.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 6728
-The Act Providing Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education.
(Scholarship Programs)
REPUBLIC ACT No. 7722
-Creating the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) composed of a chairperson and four (4)
commissioners.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 7743
-the establishment of public libraries and reading centers in every barangay and municipality of the
country.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 7784
-The Centers of Excellence Law
REPUBLIC ACT No. 7796
-The TESDA Law
REPUBLIC ACT No. 7836
-Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994
REPUBLIC ACT No. 7877
-Anti Sexual harassment Act of 1995
EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 27
-the inclusion of subject courses on human rights in the school curricula, textbooks, and other
reading materials
EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 189
-All public Secondary School teachers under the administrative supervision and control of DECS.
-Issued by former President Corazon Aquino.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 6-A
-known as the Educational Development Decree of 1972, and was implemented by the late former
President Ferdinand Marcos.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 146
-this decree requiring ALL senior high school students to pass the National College Entrance
Examination (NCEE) as pre-requisite for admission to any post- secondary academic or professional
degree program.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No.451
-this law repealed R.A No. 6139 and authorized the Sec. of Education and Culture to regulate the
imposition of tuition fee and other school fees in all private educational institutions.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 688
-This law gave the Civil Service Commission the power and authority to give the appropriate
examination for all public school teachers.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1139
-this decree issued on May 13, 1977, created the position of the undersecretary for NON-FORMAL
Education who shall make an overall assessment of the existing non formal education programs and
shall take charge of all non-formal education programs of DECS.
DEPARTMENT ORDER No. 1, s.1973
-this DECS order reiterates the policy on the use of locally published textbooks of Filipino authorship
in all levels of education, both public and private.
DEPARTMENT ORDER No. 25, s.1974
-The implementation of BILINGUAL EDUACATION Program which mandates the use of English and
Filipino as separate media of instruction.
MEC ORDER No. 22, s.1978
-ALL institutions shall offer in all their curricular programs at least six (6) units of Filipino, starting the
FIRST SEM Of school year 1979- 1980.
DECS ORDER No. 30, s. 1993
-this order issued on May 20, 1993, providing for a National Elementary Achievement Test (NEAT)
for ALL grade six pupils in Public and Private schools
DECS ORDER No. 38, s. 1994
-provided for a National Secondary Assessment Test (NSAT) to be administered to ALL graduating
public and private high school.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 1265
-the Law on the Observance of Flag Ceremony
EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 200, sec.3
-the Law prohibits fund raising in school
1987 CONSTITUTIONS ARTICLE XIV, sec. 3:2
-the Law teaches and imposes discipline
BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 232, sec. 13:2 / 1987 CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE XIV, sec 5:2,/ 1973
CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE XV, sec. 8:2
-the Law recognizes Academic Freedom
1992 MANUAL OF REGULATION FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL, sec 48-49
-the Law requires to have a fixed calendar
1992 MANUAL OF REGULATION FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL, sec. 44-47
-the Law on Education specifies faculty qualification
R.A No. 1054 AS AMMENDED BY P.D.’s Nos. 442, 570-A, 622, AND 643
-the Law requires Education to provide Medical and Dental Services
CIVIL CODE, ARTICLE 349
-the Law considers teachers, professors, and administrators to be in LOCO PARENTIS to their
pupils and students
1987 CONSTITUTIONS ARTICLE XIV, sec. 5:4
-the Law requires Education to provide professional advancement teachers.
LAWS ALLOWING PUBLICATIONS IN THE SCHOOL CAMPUS
-the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines prohibits the publication of the following:
1. ARTICLE 138 – inciting the people to rebellion
2. ARTICLE 142 – Seditious Libel
3. ARTICLE 154 – unlawful utterances
4. ARTICLE 201 – Immoral Doctrine, obscene publication and exhibition
5. ARTICLE 356 – threatening to publish and offering the prevent publication of an article for a
certain fee.
6. ARTICLE 357 – acts in the official proceedings that are prohibited to be published
7. ARTICLE 362 – Libellous remarks
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