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Department of Education (abbreviated as DepEd; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Edukasyon) is

the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring access to,
promoting equity in, and improving the quality of basic education.[2] It is the main agency tasked to
manage and govern the Philippine system of basic education. It is the chief formulator of Philippine
education policy and responsible for the Philippine primary and secondary school systems.

ROLE AND FUNCTION

In the United States, education has been established as a state function. Each state exercises this
function completely or in part through a state department of education, within which there are
varying degrees of responsibility. The state educational authority (usually known as the state
department of education and personified by the state board of education and the chief state
school officer and his or her staff) gains its powers and responsibilities specifically from the
state's constitution and statutes. Much of its influence and authority, however, has developed as
local school units, state governments, the federal government, and the courts have progressively
looked to the state educational office as a source of professional advice and information.

In general, the growth and the specific roles of state departments of education have resulted from
the state legislatures' responsibility to provide an adequate educational system; state education
departments serve not only to interpret and facilitate the development of educational legislation,
but also to observe its effect and to implement legislative mandates relating to education. The
departments observe the school systems in operation and advise the legislatures of desirable
changes and regulations. Moreover, there is a need for a central agent sufficiently knowledgeable
about education to serve in a judicial capacity in controversies arising between school districts
and local or regional educational agents and agencies of the state. State departments of education
are needed to provide both voluntary services and services mandated by the legislatures to
educational agents and state agencies. In general, the departments developed from the need to
exercise leadership through both local government and the legislative and executive branches of
state government and from the need to encourage positive improvement by uniting the
educational forces within each state.

Development
The concept of education as a state function is firmly rooted in the past, particularly in colonial
laws that foreshadowed state laws and in ordinances regulating the territories that later became
states. After the United States was formed, the concept of education as a state function was
expanded through the general reservation of power to the states in the federal Constitution,
through state constitutions, and through state statutory practice and judicial law.
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2.5 Business Location

Deped Region V office

Figure1.0 Location Map