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

School Administration and Supervision

1. Legal Bases of school administration and supervision

2. 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.

3. 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:

4. LAWS RELATED TO SCHOOL ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL

5. 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”.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Republic Act No. 896 This act is known as the Elementary Act School of 1953.

10. 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.

11. Republic Act No. 1124 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)

12. Republic Act No. 4272 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.

13. Republic Act No. 5447 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.

14. 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.

15. LAWS RELATED TO TEACHING PERSONNEL

16. 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 .

17. Commonwealth Act No. 578 This law recognizes supervisors, teachers, and professors of public and recognized private schools as person in authority .

18. Republic Act No. 660 This act amended Section 12 of the Commonwealth Act 186. This act provides for automatic retirement at the age of sixty-five years.

19. Republic Act no. 842 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.

20. Republic Act No. 1079 This law provides that civil service eligibility shall be permanent and shall have no limit.

21. Republic Act No. 1080 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.

22. Republic Act No. 4461 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.

23. Republic Act No. 447 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.

24. Republic Act No. 5168 This is known as public school teacher salary standardized act.

25. Republic Act No. 6362 This act amended R.A 5168 otherwise known as Public School Teacher Salary Standardized Act and Appropriating fund therefore.

26. LAWS RELATED TO SCHOOL CURRICULUM

27. 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.

28. Republic Act No. 343 This act provide for the inclusion of Spanish as a course or subject in all high schools, private or public of the Philippines.

29. Republic Act No. 709 This act made the teaching of Spanish obligatory in all courses of public and private colleges and universities in the Philippines.

30. Republic Act No. 1425 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.

31. Republic Act No. 1881 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.

32. 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.

33. Republic Act No. 5946 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.

34. LAWS RELATED TO STUDENTS OR PUPILS

35. Commonwealth Act No. 80 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.

36. Republic Act No. 124 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.

37. Republic Act No. 896 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 .

38. Republic Act No. 4208 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.

39. 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.

40. 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.

41. Republic Act No. 6139 This act is known as the “Tuition Fee Law”.

42. 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.

43. LAWS RELATED TO FINANCE AND SUPPORT

44. Commonwealth Act No. 586 Section 7 of this act nationalized the support of the elementary school-chartered cities.

45. Republic Act No. 5447 This act is otherwise known as Special Educational Fund Act.

46. OTHER LAWS AFFECTING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION

47. Republic Act no. 139 This act is the present basis for the selection and adaptation for textbooks to be used in public and private schools.

48. Republic Act no. 1147 This act provides for holding of regular and promotional teachers, civil service examination at least once every two years.

49. Republic Act No. 1265 This act makes flag ceremony compulsory in all educational institutions.

50. Republic Act no. 1880 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.

51. 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.

52. Department Order No. 30, 1972 This prescribed the use of identification cards by all students, faculty and staff members in each institution.

53. CIRCULARS WHICH AFFECTS ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION

54. 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.

55. B.P.S Circular no. 4, 1956 (Requiring Mathematics Subjects and Physics in the secondary course)

56. Republic Act no. 10533 (Enhanced Education Act of 2013) Implementation of K-12 program

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