REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5523  - AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF THIRTY-EIGHT MILLION ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FORTY PESOS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF EIGHT THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED EXTENSION CLASSES, INCLUDING CREATION OF POSITIONS OF GENERAL EDUCATION AND MUSIC SUPERVISORS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISTRICT SUPERVISORS, PRINCIPALS AND JANITORS

Section 1.    The sum of thirty-eight million one hundred eighty-seven thousand nine hundred forty pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the following purposes:  

a.    For the organization of 8,700 extension
    classes    P31,450,500

b.    One hundred general education supervisors
    I to be apportioned, unless not necessary,
    to divisions which have less than ten
    general education supervisors, giving
    priority to divisions which have the
    least number of supervisors           463,200

c.    Ten community adult education supervisors
    I to be apportioned on the basis of one for
    each division which has no such school
    supervisor            463,200

d.    Five hundred public schools district supervisors
    to be apportioned to each provincial and city
    division on the basis of one supervisor for
    every one hundred forty teachers         2,202,000

e.    Two hundred principals II            758,400

f.    One hundred principals I            374,800

g.    Two hundred principals             686,400

h.    One thousand music supervisors at  P4,632              46,320

i.    One thousand janitors to be appointed
    from the residents of the locality         2,160,000

Sec. 2.    The appropriation herein provided shall be used exclusively solely to cover the fund requirements as may be determined by the municipal and city school boards which can not be covered by the shares of the municipalities and cities from the additional one per cent tax on real property imposed under Republic Act Numbered Five thousand four hundred forty-seven, otherwise known as the Special Education Fund Act, and by the stabilization fund of the national government under the same Act: Provided, That in the allocation of funds priority shall be given to municipalities and cities that can not finance their school needs taking into account the number of pupils of school age ready to be enrolled in such classes.  

Sec. 3.    Said sums shall thereafter be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Sec. 4.    This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 21, 1969.