1936 COMMONWEALTH ACT NO 117 1940 COMMONWEALTH ACT

1936 COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 117 1940 COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 578 1936 COMMONWEALTH ACT No. 80 1950 EDUCATIONAL ACT 1940 1949 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 416 1947 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 139 1955 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7877 1954 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1124 1964 REPUBLIC ACT No. 4007 1957 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5250

1966 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4670 1972 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 491 1969 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6054 1967 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5525 1972 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 6 -A 1970 REPUBLIC ACT No. 6132 1982 BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 232 1977 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO 1006 1994 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7797 1987 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 202 1987 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 134 1995 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 263 1994 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7836 2010 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 17

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 117 • Commonwealth act no. 117 - an act to amend sections one, three, seven, eight, ten, seventeen, and twenty-one of act numbered twenty-eight hundred and thirty-three as amended by acts numbered twenty-nine hundred and twenty-six, thirty-six hundred and five, and thirty-seven hundred and sixty-one, regarding income tax • Approved: January 1, 1936

COMMONWEALTH ACT No. 80 • An act creating the office of adult education, enumerating its duties, defining its objectives, and providing funds for its operation. • Created under the department of public instruction an office to be known as the office of adult education. • This office shall, initiate and conduct surveys, enlist the interest and cooperation of organizations, prepare a comprehensive program, organize and supervise schools and classes , disseminate instructive cultural and vocational information, secure lecturers, demonstrators, extension and follow-up workers, train teachers and community organizers, cooperate with the bureaus of education, cooperate with the Philippine library association for the establishment of public libraries which can better serve the educational needs of adults, prepare statistics and reports on its activities and the means for carrying out its objectives. • Adult education shall be to eliminate illiteracy and to give vocational and citizenship training • He shall receive an annual compensation not exceeding five thousand pesos • No salary shall be paid from the funds • Charts, books, pamphlets, circulars, diplomas and leaflets shall have free use of the mails. • Approved, October 26, 1936

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 578 • known as the Revised Penal Code, • An act to amend as to include teachers, professors, and persons charged with the supervision of public or duly recognized private schools, colleges, and universities, within the term "persons in authority“ • any person directly vested with jurisdiction, whether as an individual or as a member of some court or governmental corporation, board or commission, shall be deemed a person in authority • Approved June 8, 1940

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 139 • Known as the board on textbooks • An act creating a board to have charge of the selection and approval of the textbooks to be used by the colleges and schools of the government, and for other purposes • Textbooks to be used in the private schools recognized or authorized by the government • Textbooks created by this act shall be directly under the secretary of instruction. • The board of textbooks shall be composed of five members to be appointed by the president of the Philippines with the consent of the commissioner of appointments • All members of said board shall be citizens of the philippines • Approved, June 14, 1947.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 416 • An act for the purpose of converting the present Philippine normal school into the Philippine normal college, conferring the degrees of bachelor of science in elementary education and master of arts in education, providing for a board of trustees, defining the board's responsibilities and duties, providing professional and technical instruction, and for other purposes • The head of this institution shall be known as the president of the Philippine normal college • The government of said college is hereby vested in a board of trustees of the Philippine normal college • Members of the board shall serve without compensation, other than actual and necessary expenses incurred either in attendance upon meetings of the board or upon other official business authorized by resolution of the board • Approved: June 18, 1949

EDUCATIONAL ACT 1940 • known as the National Internal Revenue Code • Every person who wins in horse races or Jai-Alai shall pay a tax equivalent to two and one-half per centum of his winnings or "dividends" such tax to be based on the actual amount paid to him for every winning ticket after deducting the cost of the ticket • the admission fees or charges are collected by or for and in behalf of a duly registered charitable institution or association, the tax on such admission fees or charges shall be fifty per centum of the rates provided in section • Approved: September 22, 1950

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1124 • Created a board of national education which shall formulate, implement and enforce general educational objectives and policies, coordinate the offerings, activities and functions of all educational institutions in the country with a view to accomplishing an integrated, nationalistic and democracy-inspired educational system in the Philippines. • The board of national education shall be composed of fifteen members • In the absence of the secretary of education, the undersecretary of education shall act as chairman of the board • The board shall have the following powers , functions and duties • Approved: June 16, 1954

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7877 • Known as the “anti-sexual harassment act of 1995 • An act declaring sexual harassment unlawful in the employment, • Education or training environment, and for other purposes • The state shall value the dignity of every individual, enhance the development of its human resources, guarantee full respect for human rights, and uphold the dignity of workers, employees, applicants for employment, students or those undergoing training, instruction or education. • Approved: February 14, 1995

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5250 • A Republic Act no. 5250, 1968 • An act establishing a ten-year training program for teachers of special and exceptional children in the Philippines and authorizing the appropriation of funds there of • The administration and supervision of the bureau of public schools, in cooperation with the university of the Philippines, the Philippine normal college, and the school for the deaf and the blind, a ten-year program for the training of special and exceptional children. (As amended by R. A. No. 6067, august 4, 1969). • The term “special” and exceptional children shall include the mentally retarded, the crippled, the deaf and hard of hearing, the speech handicapped, the socially and emotionally disturbed and the gifted • Approved, June 15, 1968

REPUBLIC ACT No. 4007 • An act amending section sixteen hundred eighty-six of the revised administrative code, as amended by republic act numbered twelve hundred seventy-seven • Sec. 1686, additional counsel to assist fiscal. The secretary of justice may appoint any lawyer in the government service, or a competent person not in the public service, temporarily to assist a fiscal or prosecuting attorney in the discharge of his duties, and with the same authority therein as might be exercised by the solicitor general • Approved: June 18, 1964

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4670 • Known as the "magna carta for public school teachers" • Declared to be the policy of this act to promote and improve the social and economic status of public school teachers, their living and working conditions, their terms of employment and career prospects in order that they may compare favorably with existing opportunities in other walks of life, attract and retain in the teaching profession more people with the proper qualifications, it being recognized that advance in education depends on the qualifications and ability of the teaching staff and that education is an essential factor in the economic growth of the nation as a productive investment of vital importance • Approved: June 18, 1966

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5525 • An act amending certain sections of republic act numbered twenty -two hundred thirty-four, known as the charter of the city of Legazpi • Approved: June 21, 1969

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6054 • Known and referred to as the "barrio high school charter • Declared to be the policy of this act to make possible equal opportunities for high school education for all the children of all the people of the philippines regardless of the place of birth or of the economic condition of their parents, thus enabling all the people to achieve high school education. • Approved: August 4, 1969

REPUBLIC ACT No. 6132 • Known as "the 1971 constitutional convention act • An act implementing resolution of both houses numbered two as amended by resolution of both houses numbered four of the congress of the Philippines calling for a constitutional convention, providing for proportional representation therein and other details relating to the election of delegates to and the holding of the constitutional convention, repealing for the purpose republic act four thousand nine hundred fourteen, and for other purposes • Approved: August 24, 1970

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 491 • Known as the nutrition act of the Philippines • Hereby declares that nutrition is now a priority of the government to be implemented by all branches of the government in an integrated fashion. • Approved: June 25, 1974

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 6 -A • Known as the "educational development decree of 1972 • Authorizing the undertaking of educational development projects, providing for the mechanics of implementation and financing thereof, and for other purposes • Declared to be the policy of the government to ensure, within the context of a free and democratic system maximum contribution of the educational system to the attainment of the following national development goals • Approved: September 29, 1972

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO 1006 • Known as the decree professionalizing teaching • Hereby declared a policy that teacher education shall be given primary concern and attention by the government and shall be of the highest quality, and strongly oriented to Philippine conditions and to the needs and aspirations of the Filipino people even as it seeks enrichment from adoptable ideas and practices of other people • Approved: September 22, 1976

BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 232 • Known as the "education act of 1982 • An act providing for the establishment and maintenance of an integrated system of education • This act shall apply to and govern both formal and non-formal systems in public and private schools in all levels of the entire educational system • Approved: September 11, 1982.

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 134 • Enabling act for the elections for members of congress on may 11, 1987, and for other purposes • Approved: February 27, 1987

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 202 • Creating the land transportation franchising and Regulatory board • The board shall be composed of a chairman and two (2) members with the same rank, salary and privileges of an assistant secretary, all of whom shall be appointed by the president of the Philippines upon recommendation of the secretary of transportation and communications • Approved: June 19, 1987

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7797 • An act to lengthen the school calendar from two hundred (200) days to not more than two hundred twenty (220) class days • The total number of class hours per day provided under the present system shall not be reduced to compensate for the increase in class days • School year shall start on the first Monday of June but not later than the last day of august • Approved: August 25, 1994

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7836 • Known as the "Philippine teachers professionalization act of 1994 • An act to strengthen the regulation and supervision of the practice of teaching in the Philippines and prescribing a licensure examination for teachers and for other purposes • Approved: December 16, 1994

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 263 • Adopting community-based forest management as the national strategy to ensure the sustainable development of the country's forestlands resources and providing mechanisms for its implementation • Approved: July 19, 1995

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 17 • Amending section 3 of executive order no. 82, institutionalizing the legacy of the Edsa people power revolution by creating an Edsa people power commission to perpetuate and propagate the spirit of Edsa • The vice chairperson and the members shall be appointed by the president, upon the recommendation of the chairperson • All issuances orders, rules, regulations and issuances of parts here of, which are inconsistent with this executive order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly • Approved: December 22, 2010