This document summarizes several laws related to students and education in the Philippines. It discusses laws that established compulsory elementary education, regulated tuition increases and medical inspections in private schools, provided state scholarships for gifted students, and prohibited certain collections from public school students. It also describes the presidential decree that implemented a national college entrance exam to regulate admissions to degree programs.

1. LAWS RELATED TO
STUDENTS OR
PUPILS
Aaron James Lico
Reporter

2. COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 80
• This Act provided for the organization of the Office of Adult
Education under the Director of Adult Education who was
appointed by the President with the consent of the
Commission on Appointment. This office was charged to
eliminate illiteracy, to provide for vocational guidance, and
to give citizenship training.

3. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 124
• This law requires private schools, colleges and
universities having an enrollment of 300 or more to
employ a part or full-time physician who will conduct
an annual physical examination of their
students.(Approved , June 14, 1947)
• AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE MEDICAL INSPECTION
OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS,
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES

4. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 896
• This Act provides for compulsory education of seven years and made it mandatory
on the part of the parents to enroll their children in public schools upon attaining
seven years of age. (Approved, June 14, 1947)
• Section 1. This Act shall be known as the "Elementary Education Act of 1953."
Section 2. In pursuance of them of all schools expressed in section five, Article XIV
of the Constitution, and as amplified by subsequent legislation, it shall be the main
function of the elementary school to develop healthy citizens of good moral
character, equipped with the knowledge, habits, and ideals needed for a happy and
useful home and community life.

5. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4206
• This law prohibits the collection of contributions for the
Red Cross, Anti-Tuberculosis, PTA’s, school athletic
meets, medical and dental services or any other project
or purpose, whether voluntary or otherwise, from school
children of public primary and intermediate schools.
• Under this law, persons found violating this provisions
would be punished, either with fine or imprisonment in
the discretion of the court.

6. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4090
• 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.

7. SECTION 1.
• There shall be selected annually from the graduating classes of all
public and private high schools throughout the Philippines poor but
deserving students to be known as "State Scholars" who shall be
granted state scholarships in science, arts, and letters and whose
expenses, like tuition, matriculation, and other school fees, prescribe
textbooks and equipment, board and lodging, clothing, travelling
expenses, and miscellaneous allowances, shall be defrayed from funds
appropriated by law or contributed from other sources for scholarship
purposes.

8. SECTION 2
• Candidates for state scholarship shall possess the following
qualifications:
1. They must belong to the first ten of their respective
graduating classes, and attain and maintain such tests,
standards, or criteria as will insure that they are specially
gifted in the particular fields chosen by them;

9. 2. They and their parents or, if the latter are already dead, other
persons required by law to give support have no resources to finance
them for higher education;
3. They must be good health, excellent moral character, and
unquestionable integrity;
4. They must be natural-born citizen of the Philippines and must not
be more than 21 years of age at the time of their selection.

10. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4725
• This act amended Republic no. 4206 the collection of
contribution for Anti-Tuberculosis, 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. provided
however,that this prohibition shall not cover membership
fees of school children in the Red Cross, the Girl Scouts of
the Philippines, and the Boy Scouts of the Philippines.

11. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6139
• This act is known as the “Tuition Fee Law”.
• This Act regulates the increases of tuition fees in
private school, colleges, and universities. The law
requires 180 days before effectively. The amount of
tuition fees should not be beyond 15 percent of the
basic tuition fees.

12. Section 3
• Any private educational institution proposing to increase the tuition
and/or other fees being charged and/or collected by it for any course
shall adopt the following procedure:
• (a) At least 180 days before the school year, semester, or term in
which the increase is to be effective, it shall serve written notice
thereof on the student council or government, or in case of schools or
courses below the college or university level, on the Association of
Parents, or in default thereof, the Parents-Teachers Association of the
school concerned.

13. PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 146
• 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 five year degree
programs in the country so as to improve the quality
of higher education and to distribute students
among different courses, thus meeting the
manpower needs of the country.

14. Thank you
&
God Bless!