UNION COLLEGE

Santa Cruz, Laguna

MASTER OF ARTS
Major in Educational Administration and Supervision

NAME: CHRISSA JOY MATEO

SUBJECT CODE: GA-2006 (School Finance and Educational Legislation)
PROFESSOR: ZOILA BADULIS, Ed. D.

REFLECTION PAPER ON SUPPORT FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Private schools are schools that receive funding through tuition. Tuition is money

paid to attend a school. Since people pay to attend a private school, there is no

residency requirements. Anyone who can pay can attend a private school, although

there may be strict academic or religious requirements. Those who can afford it send

their children to private schools. Private schools are not funded by the government, but

follow much the same curriculum as public schools. Many private schools in the

Philippines started as missionary or Christian schools and therefore follow a faith-based

learning system. Filipino and English are the main languages of instruction at private

schools. Classes are smaller than at public schools and facilities and resources are

usually much better. 

The Department of Education (DepEd) has created the Private Education Office

(PEO) at the DepEd Central Office (CO) to provide support to private education

institutions. “With the establishment of the PEO, DepEd can now fully exercise its

supervisory and regulatory functions and continue to implement programs of assistance

to schools, learners, teachers, and other personnel in private education,” Education

Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones said. Through DepEd Order No. 9, s. 2022, the PEO

is created to take the lead in all matters about private education lodged in the Central

Office, and primarily assist the Secretary in ensuring that DepEd’s mandate relative to

private education is fulfilled by the Department in all levels of governance identified in

Republic Act 9155.

“Aside from supervision and regulation of private schools, the Department also provides

support to private education through technical and financial assistance,” Briones

added.The PEO is expected to lead a whole-of-agency approach toward the

institutionalization of public-private complementarity across all governance levels

through appropriate interventions including, but not limited to, the development of

strategic directions and frameworks on the complementary roles of public and private

institutions in the basic education system. The office is also expected to act on, or when

warranted, make recommendations to the Secretary on all matters concerning private

education that are elevated to the DepEd Central Office and monitor their resolution.

“The PEO will collaborate with other offices to gather feedback on the implementation of

this DepEd Order from concerned internal and external partners to assess its

contribution to organizational effectiveness in the fulfillment of our mandate relative to

private education matters,” Sec. Briones ended.