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LESSON 3: BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 232
 An Act Providing for the

Establishment and Maintenance of an
Integrated System of Education
I. GENERAL PROVISION
CHAP. 1 : PRELIMINARY MATTERS
Section 1. Title
“Education Act of 1982”
Section 2. Coverage
This Act shall apply to and govern both
formal and non-formal systems in public
and private schools in all level in the entire
educational system
CHAP. 2 : DECLARATION OF BASIC STATE POLICY AND OBJECTIVES
Section 3. Declaration of Basic Policy

Development Goals:
1. To achieve and maintain an accelerating rate of economic
and social progress.
2. To ensure the maximum participation of all the people in
the attainment and enjoyment of the benefits of such growth
3. To achieve and strengthen the national unity and
consciousness and preserve, develop and promote
desirable cultural and spiritual values in changing world
CHAP. 2 : DECLARATION OF BASIC STATE POLICY AND OBJECTIVES
Section 4. Declaration of Objectives

Educational system aims to:
1. Provide for a broad and general education…
2. Train the nation’s man-power…
3. Develop the professions that will provide leadership for the
nation…
4. Respond effectively to changing needs and conditions of
the nation…
II. THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
CHAP. 1 : PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Section 5. Declaration Policy and Objectives

The state shall:
1. Aid and support the natural right of the parents…
2. Promote and safeguard the welfare and interests of the
students…
3. Promote the social and economic status of all school
personnel…
4. Extend support to promote the viability of those
institutions…
Section 6. Definition and Coverage
“Educational Community”
 Refers to those persons or group of
persons as such or associated in
institutions involved in organized teaching
and learning systems
Section 6. Definition and Coverage

Educational communities are :
1. Parents
2. Students
3. School personnel
a) Teaching or academic Staff b) School administrators
c) Academic non-teaching personnel d) non-academic
personnel
4. Schools
Section 7. Community Participation
 Every educational institution shall provide

for the establishment of appropriate
bodies…
CHAP. 2 : RIGHTS
Section 8. Rights of the Parents

Parent’s rights are:
1. The right to organize for themselves and/or with the
teachers…
2. The right to access to any official record…
CHAP. 2 : RIGHTS
Section 9. Rights of Students in School

Student and Pupil’s rights are:
1. The right to receive…
2. The right to freely choose their field of study…
3. The right of school guidance and counseling services…
4. The right to access to his own records…
5. The right of the issuance of the official certificates...
6. The right to publish a student newspaper and similar
publications…
CHAP. 2 : RIGHTS
Section 9. Rights of Students in School

Student and Pupil’s rights are:
7. The right to free expressions of opinions and suggestions…
8. The right to form, establish, join and participate in
organizations and societies…
9. The right to free from involuntary contributions…
CHAP. 2 : RIGHTS
Section 10. Rights of all School Personnel

School personnel’s rights are:
1. The right to free expression of opinion and suggestions…
2. The right to be provided with free legal service…
3. The right to establish, join and maintain labor
organizations…
4. The right to be free from involuntary contributions…
CHAP. 2 : RIGHTS
Section 11. Special Rights and/or privileges

of Teaching or Academic Staff
Their rights are:
1. The right to be free from compulsory assignments…
2. The right to intellectual property…
3. Teachers shall be deemed persons in authority…
4. Teachers shall be accorded the opportunity to choose
alternative career lines…
CHAP. 2 : RIGHTS
Section 12. Rights of School Administrators

Their rights are:
1. School administrators shall be accorded sufficient
administrative discretion necessary for the efficient
performance of their functions.
2. School administrators shall be deemed persons in
authority…
CHAP. 2 : RIGHTS
Section 13. Rights of the School

The rights are:
1. The rights of their governing boards or lawful authorities to
provide for the proper governance of the school…
2. The right for institutions of higher learning to determine on
academic grounds…
CHAP. 3 : DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS
Section 14. Duties of Parents

Parent’s duties are:
1. Parents, individually or collectively, through the school
systems, shall help carry out the educational objectives…
2. Parents shall be obliged to enable their children to obtain
elementary education, secondary and higher education…
3. Parents shall cooperate with the school…
Section 15. Duties of Responsibilities of

Students
Every students shall:
1. Exert his utmost to develop his potentials for service…
2. Uphold the academic integrity…
3. Promote and maintain the peace and tranquility of the
school…
4. Participate actively in civic affairs…
5. Exercise his rights responsibly…
Section 16. Teachers Obligations

Every teacher shall:
1. Perform his duties to the school…
2. Be accountable for the efficient and effective attainment of
specified learning objectives…
3. Render regular reports on performance of each student…
4. Assume the responsibility to maintain and sustain his
professional growth…
Section 16. Teachers Obligations

Every teacher shall:
5. Refrain from making deductions on student’s scholastic
ratings…
6. Participate as an agent of constructive social economic,
moral, intellectual, cultural and political change in his
school…
Section 17. School Administrator’s

Obligations
Every administrator shall:
1. Perform his duties to the school…
2. Be accountable for the efficient and effective administration
and management of the school.
3. Develop and maintain a healthy school atmosphere…
4. Assume and maintain professional behavior in his work…
Section 17. School Administrator’s

Obligations
Every administrator shall:
5. Render adequate reports…
6. Observe due process
7. Maintain adequate records and submit required reports…
Section 18. Obligations of Academic Non-

Teaching Personnel
They shall:
1. Improve himself professionally…
2. Assume, promote and maintain a professional attitude…
3. Promote and maintain an atmosphere…
III. THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
CHAP. 1 : FORMAL EDUCATION
Section 19. Declaration of Policy
 The state recognizes that the formal

education, or the school system, is
society’s primary learning system…
Section 20. Definition

“FORMAL EDUCATION”
 HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTRURED AND

CHRONOLOGICALLY GRADED
LEARNINGS…
Section 20. Definition

Formal Education:
1. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
2. SECONDARY EDUCATION
3. TERTIARY EDUCATION
Section 21. Objectives Of Elementary

Education
Objectives are:
1. To provide the knowledge and develop skills, attitudes
and values…
2. To provide learning experiences…
3. To promote and intensify the child’s knowledge…
4. To promote work experience which develop the child’s
orientation to the world…
Section 22. Objectives Of Secondary

Education
Objectives are:
1. To continue to promote the objectives of elementary
education…
2. To discover and enhance the different aptitudes and
interest of the student…
Section 23. Objectives Of Tertiary Education

Objectives are:
1. To provide a general program…
2. To train a nation’s manpower…
3. To develop the professionals that will provide leadership
of the nation…
4. To advance knowledge…
CHAP. 2 : NON FORMAL EDUCATION AND SPECIALIZED
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
Section 24. Specialized Education Service

Policies are:
1. “Work Education,” or “Practical Arts”, as a program of
basic education…
2. “Special Education”…
3. “Non-formal Education”
a. To eradicate illiteracy…
b. To provide skills…
c. To develop values and attitudes…
CHAP. 3 : ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOLS
Section 25. Establishments of Schools
 All school shall established in accordance

with law…
 Government assistance to such schools
for educational programs shall be used
exclusively for that purpose.
Section 26. Definition of Terms
 Schools
 Public Schools
 Private Schools
Section 27. Recognition of the Schools
 The educational operations of the schools

shall be subject to the prior authorization
of the government…
Section 28. Effects of Recognition;

Punishable Violations
The effects are:
1. Transforms the Temporary permit to Permanent
2. It entitles the school or college to give the students…
3. It shall entitle the students who have graduated from said
recognized courses…
Section 29. Voluntary Accreditation
 The ministry shall encourage programs of

voluntary accreditations for institutions…
CHAP. 4 : INTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS OF SCHOOLS
Section 30. Organization of Schools
 Each school shall establish such internal

organization as will best enable it to carry
out its academic and administrative
subject…
Section 31. Governing Board
 Every government college or university

established as a tertiary institution…
Section 32. Personnel Transactions
 The terms and conditions of employment

of personnel in government schools shall
be governed by Civil Service, Budgetary
and compensation laws and rules…
CHAP. 5 : SCHOOL FINANCE AND ASSISTANCE

Government shall:
1. Adopt measures to broaden access…
2. Encourage and stimulate private support to education…
A. FUNDING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Section 34. National Funds
 Public schools shall continue to be funded

primarily from national funds…

Section 35. Financial Aid and Assistance to
Public Secondary Schools
 National government shall extend

financial aid and assistance to public
secondary schools…

Section 36. Share of Local Government
 Provinces, cities, and municipalities and

barangays shall appropriate funds in their
annual budget…

Section 37. Special Education Fund
 Special education funds accruing local

governments shall be used exclusively for
the purpose…

Section 38. Tuition and other School Fees
 Secondary and post-secondary schools

may charge tuition and other school
fees…

Section 39. Income from other Sources
 Government-supported educational
institutions may receive grants, legacies,
donations and gifts…
B. FUNDING OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Section 40. Funding of Private Schools
 Private schools may be funded from their

capital investments or equity
contributions…

Section 41. Government Assistance
 The Government, in recognition of their

complementary role in the educational
system, may provide aid…

Section 42. Tuition and other School Fees
 Each private school shall determine its

rate of tuition and other school fees or
charges

Section 43. Income from other Sources
 Any private school duly recognized by the

government, may receive any grant and
legacy, donation, gift, bequest, or device
from any…
C. INCENTIVES TO EDUCATION
 It is the policy of the state in the pursuit

of national educational development goals
to provide incentive programs to…
Section 46. Relating to School Property
 Real property, such as lands, buildings

and other improvements thereon used
actually, directly and exclusively for
educational purposes…
Section 47. Relating to Gifts or Donations to
Schools
 All gifts or donations in favor of any

school, college or university recognized by
the government shall not be…
Section 48. Relating to Earnings from
Established Scholarship Funds
 All earnings from the investments of any

duly established scholarship fund of any
school recognized by the government…
Section 49. School Dispersal Program
 All gains realized from the sale,

disposition or transfer of property, real or
personal, of any duly established private
school, college or university…
Section 50. Conversion to Educational
Foundations
 Educational institution may convert itself

into a non-stock, non-profit educational
foundation…
D. ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS
Section 51. Government Assistance to
Students
 Government shall provide financial

assistance to financially disadvantaged
and deserving students…
Section 52. Grant of Scholarship Pursuant
to Existing Laws
 Educational institutions shall be

encourage to grant scholarships to
students…
Section 53. Assistance from the Private
Sector
 Private sector, especially educational

institutions, business and industry shall
encouraged to grant financial assistance…
LESSON 4: REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9155
 An Act Instituting a Framework of

Governance for Basic Education,
Establishing Authority and
Accountability, Renaming the
Department of Education, Culture and
Sports as the Department of
Education and for other Purposes
LESSON 4. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9155
…
Section 1. Short Title

“Government of Basic Education of 2001”
It is hereby declared the policy of the State
to protect and promote the right of all
citizens…
…
Section 3. Purposes and Objectives

These are:
a) To provide the framework for the governance of basic
education…
b) To define the roles and responsibilities of, and provide
resources to the field offices…
c) To make schools and learning centers the most important
vehicle for teaching and learning…
d) To ensure that schools and learning centers receive that
kind of focused attention…
…
Section 3. Purposes and Objectives

These are:
e) To enable the schools learning centers to reflect the
values of the community…
f) To encourage local initiatives for the improvement of the
schools and learning centers…
g) To establish schools and learning centers as facilities
where school children are able to learn a range of core
competencies…
…

These are:
a) Alternative Learning Center
b) Basic Education
c) Cluster of Schools
d) Formal Education
e) Information Education
f) Integrated School
g) Learner
…

These are:
h) Learning Center
i) Learning Facilitator
j) Non-Formal Education
k) Quality Education
l) School
m) School Head
CHAP. 1 GOVERNANCE OF BASIC EDUCATION
Section 5. Principles of Shared Governance

These are:
a) Shared governance is a principle which recognize that
every unit in education bureaucracy has a particular role,
task and responsibility…
b) The process of democratic consultation shall be observed
in the decision-making process at appropriate levels…
LESSON 4 …
Section 5. Principles of Shared Governance

These are:
c) The principles of accountability and transparency shall be
operationalized…
d) The communication channels of field offices shall be
strengthened to facilitate of information and expand
linkages…
LESSON 4 …
Section 6. Governance
 The Department of Education, Culture

and Sports henceforth be called the
Department of Education…
LESSON 4 …
Section 7. Powers, Duties and Functions
 The Secretary of the Department of

Education shall exercise overall authority
and supervision over the operation of the
Department.
LESSON 4 …

A. NATIONAL LEVEL
Secretary of Education shall:
1. Formulating national educational policies;
2. Formulating a national basic education plan;
3. Promulgating national educational standards;
4. Monitoring and assessing national learning outcomes;
LESSON 4 …

A. NATIONAL LEVEL
Secretary of Education shall:
5. Undertaking national educational research and studies;
6. Enhancing the employment status, professional
competence, welfare and working conditions of all
personnel of the department;
7. Enhancing the total development of the learners through
local and national programs and/or subject.
LESSON 4 …

B. REGIONAL LEVEL
Regional Director shall:
1. Defining a regional education policy framework which
reflects the values, needs and expectations of the
communities they serve;
2. Developing a regional basic education plan;
3. Developing regional educational standards with a view
towards benchmarking for international competitiveness.
LESSON 4 …

B. REGIONAL LEVEL
4. Monitoring, evaluating and assessing regional learning
outcomes;
5. Undertaking research projects and developing and
managing region wide projects which may be funded
through official development assistance and/or other
funding agencies.
LESSON 4 …

B. REGIONAL LEVEL
6. Ensuring strict compliance with the prescribed national
criteria for the recruitment, selection and training…
7. Formulating, in coordination with the regional
development council, the budget to support the regional
educational plan…
LESSON 4 …

B. REGIONAL LEVEL
8. Determining the organization component…
9. Hiring, placing and evaluating all employees in the
regional office…
10. Evaluating all schools division superintendents and
assistant division superintendents in the region;
LESSON 4 …

B. REGIONAL LEVEL
11. Planning and managing the effective and efficient use of
all personnel, physical and fiscal resources of the regional
office…
12. Managing the database and management information
system of the region;
LESSON 4 …

B. REGIONAL LEVEL
13. Approving the establishment of public and private
elementary and high schools and learning center;
14. Performing such other functions as may be assigned by
the proper authorities.
LESSON 4 …

C. DIVISION LEVEL
Division Superintendents shall:
1. Developing and implementing division education
development plans;
2. Planning and managing the effective and efficient use of
all personnel, physical and fiscal resources of the division,
including professional staff development;
LESSON 4 …

C. DIVISION LEVEL
3. Hiring, placing and evaluating all division supervisors and
schools district supervisors as well as all employees…
4. Monitoring the utilization of funds provided by the
national government and the local government units to the
schools and learning centers;
LESSON 4 …

C. DIVISION LEVEL
5. Ensuring compliance of quality standards for basic
education programs…
6. Promoting awareness of and adherence by all schools and
learning centers…
LESSON 4 …

C. DIVISION LEVEL
7. Supervising the operations of all public and private
elementary, secondary and integrated schools, and
learning centers;
proper authorities.
LESSON 4 …

D. SCHOOLS DISTRICT LEVEL
Division Supervisor shall:
1. Providing professional and instructional advice and
support to the school heads and teachers/facilitators…
2. Curricula supervision;
proper authorities.
LESSON 4 …

E. SCHOOLS LEVEL
School Heads shall:
1. Setting the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the
school;
2. Creating an environment within the school that is
conducive to teaching and learning;
3. Implementing the school curriculum and being
accountable for higher learning outcomes;
LESSON 4 …

E. SCHOOLS LEVEL
School Heads shall:
4. Developing the school education program and school
improvement plan;
5. Offering educational programs, projects and services
which provide equitable opportunities for all learners in
the community;
LESSON 4 …

E. SCHOOLS LEVEL
School Heads shall:
6. Introducing new and innovative modes of instruction to
achieve higher learning outcomes;
7. Administering and managing all personnel, physical and
fiscal resources of the school;
8. Recommending the staffing complement of the school
based on its needs;
LESSON 4 …

E. SCHOOLS LEVEL
School Heads shall:
9. Encouraging staff development;
10. Establishing school and community networks…
11. Accepting donations, gifts, bequests and grants…
proper authorities.
LESSON 4 …
CHAP. 2 TRANSFER OF CULTURAL AGENCIES
Section 8. Cultural Agencies

 Office and the National Library shall now be
administratively attached to the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
and no longer with the Department of
Education. The program for school arts and
culture shall remain part of the school
curriculum.
LESSON 4 …
CHAP. 3 ABOLITION OF THE BUREAU OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND
SCHOOL SPORTS
Section 9. Abolition of BPESS
 All functions, programs and activities of the

Department of Education related to sports
competition shall be transferred to the Philippine
Sports Commission (PSC)
LESSON 4 …
CHAP. 4 SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE OF OTHER GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES
Section 10.
 The Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Budget

and Management shall, within ninety (90) days from the
approval of this Act, jointly promulgate the guidelines on
the allocation, distribution and utilization of resources
provided by the national government for the field offices,
taking into consideration the uniqueness of the working
conditions of the teaching service…
LESSON 4 …
AGENCIES
Section 11.
 The Secretary of the Department of Education, subject

to civil service laws and regulations, shall issue
appropriate personnel policy rules and regulations that
will best meet the requirements of the teaching
profession taking into consideration the uniqueness of
the working conditions of the teaching service.
LESSON 4 …
AGENCIES
Section 12.
 The Commission on Audit, in the issuance of audit rules

and regulations that will govern the utilization of all
resources as well as the liquidation, recording and
reporting thereof, shall take into account the different
characteristics and distinct features of the department’s
field offices, its organizational set-up as well as the
nature of the operations of schools and learning centers.
LESSON 4 …
CHAP. 5 FINAL PROVISIONS
Section 13. Governance in the ARMM

 The Regional Education Secretary for the Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) shall exercise similar governance
authority over the divisions, districts, schools and learning centers in
the region as may be provided in the Organic Act without prejudice to
the provisions of Republic Act No. 9054, entitled “An Act to
Strengthen and Expand the Organic Act for the Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao, Amending for the Purpose Republic Act No.
6734, entitled ‘An Act Providing for the Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao, as amended .
LESSON 4 …
Section 14. Rules and Regulations.
 The Secretary of Education shall promulgate the

implementing rules and regulations within ninety (90)
days after the approval of this Act: Provided, That, the
Secretary of Education shall fully implement the
principle of shared governance within two (2) years after
the approval of this Act.
LESSON 4 …
Section 15. Separability Clause.
 If for any reason, any portion or provision of this Act

shall be declared unconstitutional, other parts or
provisions hereof which are not affected thereby shall
continue to be in full force and effect.
LESSON 4 …
Section 16. Repealing Clause
 All laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and regulations,

part or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act, are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
LESSON 4 …
Section 17. Effectivity Clause
 This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days following its
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general
circulation.
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OTHER EDUCATION AND

 An Act Providing for the

Section 3. Declaration of Basic Policy

Section 4. Declaration of Objectives

Section 5. Declaration Policy and Objectives

Section 6. Definition and Coverage

Section 6. Definition and Coverage

Section 7. Community Participation

 Every educational institution shall provide

Section 8. Rights of the Parents

Section 9. Rights of Students in School

Section 9. Rights of Students in School

Section 10. Rights of all School Personnel

Section 11. Special Rights and/or privileges

Section 12. Rights of School Administrators

Section 13. Rights of the School

Section 14. Duties of Parents

Section 15. Duties of Responsibilities of

Section 16. Teachers Obligations

Section 16. Teachers Obligations

Section 17. School Administrator’s

Section 17. School Administrator’s

Section 18. Obligations of Academic Non-

Section 19. Declaration of Policy

 The state recognizes that the formal

Section 20. Definition

 HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTRURED AND

Section 20. Definition

Section 21. Objectives Of Elementary

Section 22. Objectives Of Secondary

Section 23. Objectives Of Tertiary Education

Section 24. Specialized Education Service

Section 25. Establishments of Schools

 All school shall established in accordance

Section 26. Definition of Terms

Section 27. Recognition of the Schools

 The educational operations of the schools

Section 28. Effects of Recognition;

Section 29. Voluntary Accreditation

 The ministry shall encourage programs of

Section 30. Organization of Schools

 Each school shall establish such internal

Section 31. Governing Board

 Every government college or university

Section 32. Personnel Transactions

 The terms and conditions of employment

Section 33. Declaration of Policy

A. FUNDING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 Public schools shall continue to be funded

A. FUNDING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 National government shall extend

A. FUNDING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 Provinces, cities, and municipalities and

A. FUNDING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 Special education funds accruing local

A. FUNDING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 Secondary and post-secondary schools

A. FUNDING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

B. FUNDING OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS

 Private schools may be funded from their

B. FUNDING OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS

 The Government, in recognition of their

B. FUNDING OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS