REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4372 - AN ACT TO
AMEND REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ELEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR ENTITLED "AN
ACT CREATING A BOARD OF NATIONAL EDUCATION CHARGED WITH THE DUTY OF
FORMULATING GENERAL EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND DIRECTING THE EDUCATIONAL
INTERESTS OF THE NATION"
Section 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Eleven
hundred and twenty-four is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. There is hereby created a Board of National
Education which is hereby authorized to formulate general education
objectives and policies, coordinate the offerings, activities and
functions of all educational institutions in the country with a view to
carry out the provisions of the constitution and to accomplishing an
integrated, well rounded nationalistic and democracy-inspired
educational system in the Philippines."
Sec. 2. Section two, of Republic Act Numbered
Eleven hundred and twenty-four is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. The Board of National Education shall be
composed of eight members as follows:
(a) The Secretary of Education
(b) The Chairman of the Committee on Education in the
House of Representatives
(c) The Chairman of the Committee on Education in the
Senate
(d) The President of the University of the
Philippines; and
(e) Four other members who shall be appointed by the
President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission of
Appointment, one from each of the following groups:
(a) Catholic Educational Association of the
Philippines;
(b) Muslim Association of the Philippines;
(c) Philippine Association of Christian Schools;
(d) Philippine Association of Colleges and
Universities."
Sec. 3. Section three of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. The Secretary of Education shall act as
Chairman of the Board. A Vice-Chairman shall be elected from among the
members of the Board who shall act as Chairman in the absence of the
Secretary of Education. The Chairman and members of the Board shall be
entitled to a per diem of fifty pesos (P50) for actual attendance of
the meeting of the Board which shall not exceed five hundred pesos
(P500) a month.
The Board shall have a regular meeting at least twice a month and may
have as many social meetings as may be necessary at the call of the
Chairman or any three members thereof."
Sec. 4. Section four of the same Act is hereby
amended by adding and inserting therein, subsections (d), (e), (f), and
(g) to read as follows:
(d) To establish guidelines, policies, and criteria
on the basis of which the examination, evaluation, and approval of
textbooks by the Board of Textbooks shall be made.
(e) To compile educational statistics, keep records
on education, conduct researches, surveys, and studies on educational
conditions and problems, evaluate the effects of national educational
policies, and undertake such other activities as to effectivity carry
out the purpose of this Act.
(f) To secure data and information from all
government offices and entities and educational institutions, public
and private, and to consults and confer with the officers and personnel
thereof, on such matter as may be necessary for the Board to discharge
its functions.
(g) To submit an annual report to the President and
to Congress not later than January thirty-first of each year which
shall include a compilation of the national educational policies
formulated by the Board, an evaluation of the national educational
system, and recommendations of the Executive and Legislative Branches
of the government on the improvement of the educational system of the
country.
Sec. 5. Section five of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 5. It shall be the agency of the Government for
the formulation of educational policies and the directly of the
educational interest of the nation, subject only to the constitutional
authority to the Congress and the President of the Republic over
executive departments, bureaus and offices."
Sec. 6. Section seven of the same Act is amended
to read as follows:
"Sec. 7. The Board shall appoint a Secretary who
shall have the rank of undersecretary of a department and shall have a
secretariat composed of an administrative, research, and technical
staff as may be necessary to carry out its determined, whose
qualification and compensation shall be determined by the Board subject
to existing laws: provided, that no officer or employee in the existing
staff of the compensation lower than that now received by him or to
which he is entitled under existing laws."
Sec. 7. Section nine of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 9. The sum of One million pesos or so much
thereof as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, is
hereby appropriated out of any funds in the national Treasury not
otherwise appropriated."
Sec. 8. All laws, rules and regulations contrary
to the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 9. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 19, 1965
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