R.A NO.

4670 Magna Carta for Public School

Teachers

Known as the “Magna Carta for Public School Teachers”. This was approved on June
18, 1966 to promote and improve the social and economic status of public school
teachers, their living and working conditions, their employment and career prospects.
It also provided the following:

1. Recruitment qualifications for teachers

2. Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers
3. Teaching hours- 6 hours of classroom teaching (maximum load)
4. Additional compensation- 25% of the regular remuneration
5. Health and injury benefits (thru the GSIS)
6. One year study leave (sabbatical leave) after seven years of continuous
teaching, the teacher should receive 60% of the monthly salary.
7. One range salary increase upon retirement (basis computing the retirement fee).
8. Freedom to form organizations.

R.A NO.6655 Free public secondary

education
Known as the “Free Public Secondary Education Act of 1988”, it was approved on
May 26, 1988 and provided for:
a. Free public secondary education to all qualified citizens and promote quality
education at all level.
b. No tuition or other fees shall be collected except fees related to membership in the
school community such I.D., student organization and publication.
c. Non- payment of these shall not hinder a student from enrollment or graduation.
d. Nationalization of all public secondary schools ( Section 7)
e. A student who fails in majority of his academic subjects for two consecutive years
could no longer avail of their program.

R.A NO.6728 Act providing assistance to

students and teachers in private education
R.A NO.6966 Regulating the practice of
Librarianship
 R.A NO.7615 Creating the Literacy
Coordinating Council
R.A NO.7624 Intergrating Drug Prevention and
Control in School Curricula
R.A NO.7662 legal reform act of 1993
R.A NO.7686 strengthen the manpower
education and training in the Philippines
R.A NO.7687 instituting a Science and
Technology Scholarship program
R.A NO.7722 creating the CHED
Approved on June 16, 1954, this law created the Board of National Education charged
with the duty of formulating general educational policies and directing the educational
interests of the nation.
However, this Board which was later renamed National Board of Education (P.D. No. 1),
was abolished bu virtue of the Creation of the board of Higher Education as stipulated in
Batas Pambansa Blg. 232. The Board’s function is now assumed by the commission on
Higher Education or CHED by virtue of Republic Act No. 7722.

R.A NO.7731 Abolishing the NCEE entrance

examination
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:
Section 1. Presidential Decree Numbered One Hundred Forty-Six (P.D. No. 146),
entitled, “Upgrading the Quality of Education in the Philippines by Requiring All High
School Graduates Seeking Admission to Post Secondary Degree Programs
Necessitating a Minimum of Four Years Study To Pass a National Entrance
Examination and Appropriating Funds Therefor”, is hereby repealed.
Section 2. Those who failed the examinations, as required under P.D. No. 146, and
failed to make the grade for admissions shall no longer be denied or refused enrollment
by any school, college or university to any post-secondary program necessitating a
minimum of four (4) years as prescribed under the said Decree subject to the admission
requirements of the institutions concerned.
Section 3. No national entrance examination shall be required for admission to post-
secondary degree programs.
Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

R.A NO.7743 establishing libraries in Congress

districts, cities, Municipalities and Barangays.
R.A NO.7784 an act to strengthen Teacher
Education in the Philippines
R.A NO.7796 creating the TESDA
the Act’s objective was to provide relevant and quality technical education that is
accessible to all and to create the agency that will manage technical education
and skills development in the Philippines.

R.A NO.7797 lengthening the school calendar

(200 days to 220 days)
R.A NO.7836 requiring the education graduates
to take the LET under the supervision of PRC
the Act made it mandatory for people pursuing a career in teaching to take the
licensure examinations that are administered and regulated by the Professional
Regulatory Commission.

R.A NO.7836 requiring the education graduates

to take the LET under the supervision of PRC
R.A NO.10533 Enhanced Basic Education Act