Prepared by:

Jaybee Claire Santuyo

 The

Administration and Supervision of the

Philippine government in the early part of
American regime was entrusted to the
Philippine Commission appointed by the
president of the United States. The Second
Commission, headed by William H. Taft,
was created in 1901. To cooperate with
militaries authorities in the islands and to
open the way for the establishment of the
civil government. All legislative function of
the military government were transferred
to the Second Philippine Commission.

 School

laws give authority, purpose and

direction to school administrators,
supervisors, and classroom teachers. The
legal enactments in this country which
has bearing on the status of school
administration and supervision are the
following:

 The

most important legal basis of the

administration and supervision is found
in certain provision of the Philippine
Constitution. Section 8 of Article XV
state that All educational institutions
shall be under the supervision of and
subject regulation by the state.

 The

administration of the Philippine

Government during the early part of the
American occupation was in the hands of
Philippine commission whose members
were appointed by the President of the
United States. The commission on January
21, 1901, passed Act No. 74, Section 1 of
which established a Department of Public
Instruction, which has executive control
and general supervision of all schools
already established by the Military
authorities.

 This

act is the basic law governing

private education in this country. It
amended act No. 2706 which
provided for the government
regulation and supervision of private
schools, college and universities.

 This

Act is known as the Educational

Act of 1940 which provides the legal
basis of the present six-year elementary
course, the double-single session, the
school entrance ages, and national
support of elementary education.

 This

act is known as the Elementary Act

School of 1953. This new law restore
Grade 7 VII which was abolished by
the Education Act 1940.

 (Based

on upon the Reorganization

Act of 1947). This law gives the
Secretary of Education executive
supervision over the Bureau of Public
School and the Bureau of Private
Schools, the Bureau of Public Libraries,
the Institute of National Language,
and the Philippine Historical
Committee.

 This

act created by the board of

Education, According to this law, the
Board of the National Education is a
policy making body.

 This

act reduced the number of

members of the board under Republic
Act No. 1124 from 15 members to 8
members. The old Bureau of National
Education of 15 members has been
inoperative for several years. It was
only July 1967 that the new board of
eight members under the law (R.A
4572) was reconstituted.

 This

law is otherwise known as Special

Education Fund Act. This law provides
an annual additional tax of one
percent of the assessed value of real
property tax.

 This

control and administration of all

educational institutions already
established or here after to be established
in the Philippines shall be vested in the
citizens of the Philippines. Membership in
governing bodies or boards of such
educational institutions shall be vested in
the citizens of the Philippines.

 This

act places the public school

teachers under Civil Rules and
Regulations as to other examination,
appointment, transfer, separation,
suspension, and reinstatement. This act
also protects tenure of office.

 This

law recognizes supervisors,

teachers, and professors of public and
recognized private schools as person in
authority.

 This

act amended Section 12 of the

Commonwealth Act 186. This act
provides for automatic retirement at
the age of sixty-five years, if the
teacher has completed fifty years of
service, and if he is not, he shall
allowed to continue service until he
has completed the lacking fifteen
years unless as otherwise eligible for
disability retirement.

 This

Salary Act of 1953 (R.A 842)

provides for revised salary scale and
automatic salary increases for public
school officials, teachers and other
school personnel at the government.

 This

law provides that civil service

eligibility shall be permanent and shall
have no limit.

 This

act states that the bar examination

and the board examination which
review candidates to have four years
of college training and two years for
experience are considered equivalent
to the first grade regular examination.

 This

Act that regular and promotional

teacher civil service examinations be
given at least once every two years.

 This

act is known as the Teachers

Meeting Law. This law provides that the
teachers meeting shall not be called
on Saturdays. This concept is based on
the contention of teachers that
Saturdays is not a working day as
observed by the government
employees.

 This

act is known as the Provincial

Salary Act. This law raised the salaries
of filed school superintendents above
the level of the salaries of Division
Chiefs in the Central Office who had
served in the field as superintendent of
school and who are supposed to have
higher category than the field
superintendents.

 This

is known as the public school

teacher salary standardized act.

 This

act amended R.A 5168 otherwise

known as the Public School Teacher
Salary Standardized Act and
Appropriating Fund therefore.

 The

secretary provides that religions

instruction maybe schedule during the
school session in such a way as to
enable the teacher in religion to teach
in the public school building for more
30 minutes period a day, three times a
week, to different groups of pupils in
the same school. Provided no pupils is
given instruction under this
arrangement for more than the
maximum length of time allowed by
law.

 This

act provide for the inclusion of

Spanish as a course or subject in all
high schools, private or public of the
Philippines.

 This

act made the teaching of Spanish

obligatory in all courses of public and
private colleges and universities in the
Philippines.

 This

act requires that courses on the

life, works and writings of Jose Rizal,
particularly his novel Noli Me Tangere
and El Filibusterismo shall be included
in the curricula of all private and public
schools colleges and universities.

 This

act states that all students enrolled

in the courses in law, commerce,
foreign service, liberal arts and
education are required to complete at
least 24 units of Spanish.

 This

department increased time

allotment for language arts from 30 to
40 minutes in grade 1 and 2 from 40 to
60 minutes in grade 3 and 4 from 60 to
80 minutes in the intermediate grades.

 This

law amended the Medical Act of

1959. The acts state that the students
seeking admission to medical school
must have a Bachelor Degree in
Science or in Arts.

 This

act provided for organization of

the office of adult education under
director of adult education, who was
appointed by the president with
consent of the commission on
appointment.

 This

law requires private school,

colleges and universities having an
enrollment of 300 or more to employ a
part of full time physician who conduct
an annual physical examination of
their students.

 This

provides for compulsory education

of 7 years and made it mandatory on
the part of parents to enroll their
children in public schools upon
attaining 7 years of age.

 This

law prohibits the collection of

contribution for the red cross, AntiTuberculosis, PTAs schools athletic
meets, medical and dental service or
any other projects or purpose whether
voluntary or otherwise from school
children or public primary of
intermediate schools.

 An

act providing for state scholarship

in science, arts and letters and for poor
and deserving students, creating a
state scholarship council to integrate,
systematize, administer and implement
all program of scholarship, and
appropriate funds thereof.

 This

act amended Republic no. 4206

the collection of contribution for AntiTuberculosis, Parent, Teacher
Associations, School athletic meets.
Medical and dental service school
children and teachers of public
primary of intermediate and high
school is hereby prohibited.

 This

act is known as the Tuition Fee

Law.

 This

decree is known as the National

College Entrance Examination was
promulgated with no other purpose
but to regulate the admission of
students to all four year or to five year
degree programs in the country so, as
to improve the quality to higher
education and to distribute students
among different courses, thus meeting
the manpower needs of the country.

 Section

7 of this act nationalized the

support of the elementary school
chartered cities.

 This

act authorizes all vocational school

to collect tuition fees and received
contributions from private persons and
contract loans from the government
and private banks and other financial
institutions and to create a special
trusts fund for each school.

 This

act is otherwise known as Special

Educational Fund Act.

 This

act authorizes the Director of the

Bureau of the private schools to call
upon the members of the government
examination boards for technical
advice.

 This

act is the present basis for the

selection and adaptation for textbooks
to be used in public and private
schools.

 This

act provides for holding of regular

and promotional teachers, civil service
examination at least once every two
years.

 This

act makes flag ceremony

compulsory in all educational
institutions.

 An

act amending section 562 and 564

of the Revised Administrative which
prescribes the legal hours of labor,
eight hours a day, five days a week or
forty hours a week.

 This

order gives the heads of the

Institution Authority to expels, dismiss,
suspend indefinitely, or cause the
expulsion, dismissal, or were found to
have engaged or were engaged in
supervision or similar illegal activities or
were known to be active member
subversive organizations and activities.

 This

prescribed the use of identification

cards by all students, faculty and staff
members in each institution.

 Discharged

Filipino veterans who had

been active in service with the US and
Military forces and who meet certain
requirements prescribed by law are
eligible for education or training under
Public Law 348 in any approved
school, colleges, universities or other
institution of learning.

 This

circular states that a public school

teacher must have rendered at least 2
years of satisfactory service before he
can teach in private schools.

 (Requiring

Mathematics Subjects and

Physics in the secondary course)

 (Enhanced

Education Act of 2013)

Implementation

of K-12 program