MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

Local Government Code (LGC) of 1991 (Republic Act 7160). The Local Government Code
(LGC) of 1991 amended RA 5447. RA 5447 called for the creation of Local School Boards (LSBs)
at the provincial, city and municipal levels which were composed of the provincial/city division
superintendent/district supervisors as chairman and the representative of the governor/ city
mayor/ municipal mayor, the local treasurer, the representative of the local council and the
representative of the League of Parents-Teachers Associations as members. Under RA 5447,
the LSBs were mandated to determine the allocation of the Special Education Fund for the
operation and maintenance of public schools within the province, city or municipality in
accordance with the criteria set by the Bureau of Public Schools or by the Bureau of Vocational
Education, as the case may be, and approved by the Secretary of Education.

Every province, city or municipality has a Local School Board (LSB). The functions of the
LSB include: determining the annual and supplemental budgetary needs for the operation and
maintenance of public schools within its jurisdiction; authorizing disbursements from the Special
Education Fund; and serving as advisory committee to the Sanggunian concerned with
educational matters. The DepEd shall consult the LSB on the appointment of division
superintendents, district supervisors, school principals, and other school officials.

The Local Government Code contains two provisions that pertain to how the SEF is to be
allocated. First, Section 100 provides that the annual school board budget shall give priority to
the following: (i) construction, repair, and maintenance of school buildings and other facilities of
public elementary and secondary schools; (ii) establishment and maintenance of extension
classes where necessary; and (iii) sports activities at the division, district, municipal, and
barangay levels.

With the aforementioned provisions of the Republic Act 7160: Rules and Regulations
Implementing Local Government Code, the School Principal of Tilhaong Elementary School and
the Office of the Barangay Tilhaong, headed by the Brgy. Captain signed into a Memorandum
of Agreement stating the Barangay Council to provide supplementary funding support to the
Tilhaong Elementary School. The Barangay Officials agreed to provide a part of the Barangay
hall to be used as classrooms while waiting for the budget from the Department of Education
allotted for the construction of the infrastructures of the school. These are stated in the
attached Memorandum of Understanding made legal through the Barangay Resolution No. 17
Series of 2020.
attachment I: Memorandum of understanding
attachment II: Barangay Resolution No. 17 Series of 2020

Furthermore, when schools and community work together to support learning, everyone
benefits. Partnerships can serve to strengthen, support, and even transform individual partners,
resulting in improved program quality, more efficient use of resources, and better alignment of
goals and curricula (Harvard Family Research Project, 2010). When schools, districts, parents
and community groups collaborate and align their efforts around student achievement, more
students will succeed, success can be sustained, and public education will be at its best.
(Henderson and Mapp, 2002)