Legal-Bases-of-School-Administration-and-Supervision.pptx

LEGAL BASES OF SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATION AND
SUPERVISION

HISTORICAL SKETCH
The Administration and Supervision
of the Philippines 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 military
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.

LAWS RELATED TO SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION
• 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:

LAWS RELATED TO SCHOOL
ORGANIZATION AND
CONTROL

THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION
• The most important legal basis of the
administration and supervision is found in
certain provision of the Philippine
Constitution. Section 8 of Article XV states
that “All educational institutions shall be
under the supervision of and subject
regulation by the state”.

ACT NO. 74 OF THE PHILIPPINE
COMMISSION
• 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.

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO.
180
• 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.

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO.
586
• 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.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 896
• This act is known as the Elementary Act
School of 1953.

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 94
• (Based 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.
(15 members)

• 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.

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 178
• 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.

LAWS RELATED TO
TEACHING PERSONNEL

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 177
• This act places 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.

• 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 first grade regular
examination.

• 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 public school teacher
salary standardized act.

• This act amended R.A 5168 otherwise
known as Public School Teacher Salary
Standardized Act and Appropriating fund
therefore.

LAWS RELATED TO
SCHOOL CURRICULUM

DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 1955
• The secretary provides that religions
instruction may be scheduled during the
school session in such a way as to enable
the teacher in religion to teach in 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 school,
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.

DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 19, 1970
• 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.

LAWS RELATED TO
STUDENTS OR PUPILS

• 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, Anti-
Tuberculosis, PTAs, school 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 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.

• This act is known as the “Tuition Fee Law”.

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 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.

LAWS RELATED TO
FINANCE AND SUPPORT

• Section 7 of this act nationalized the support
of the elementary school-chartered cities.

• This act is otherwise known as Special
Educational Fund Act.

OTHER LAWS AFFECTING
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
AND SUPERVISION

• 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.

DEPARTMENT ORDER 27, 1972
• 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.

DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 30, 1972
• This prescribed the use of identification
cards by all students, faculty and staff
members in each institution.

CIRCULARS WHICH
AFFECTS ADMINISTRATION
AND SUPERVISION

B.P.S CIRCULAR NO. 32, 1952
• 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.

B.P.S CIRCULAR NO. 4, 1956
• (Requiring Mathematics Subjects and
Physics in the secondary course)

• (Enhanced Education Act of 2013)
• Implementation of K-12 program

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