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Republic Acts for Teachers

Discussant: Romeo E.Orellada Jr.
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01 REPUBLIC ACT No. 137
Acts -Board of Textbooks. It provided for all public schools to use only those
books approved by the board for a period of six years from the date of
their adoption.

02 REPUBLIC ACT No. 1425

The inclusion of a course on the life, works and writings- especially the
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo of Dr. Jose Rizal in the curricula of
all public and private schools.

03 REPUBLIC ACT No. 4670

-The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers.

04 REPUBLIC ACT 1079

-Commonwealth Act No.117
-Civil Service Eligibility shall be permanent and shall be valid throughout a
person’s lifetime.
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05 REPUBLIC ACT No. 6728
Acts -The Act Providing Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in
Private Education. (Scholarship Programs)

06 REPUBLIC ACT No. 7722

-Creating the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) composed of a
chairperson and four (4) commissioners

07 REPUBLIC ACT No. 7743

-the establishment of public libraries and reading centers in every
barangay and municipality of the country.

08 REPUBLIC ACT No. 7784

-The Centers of Excellence Law
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09 REPUBLIC ACT No. 7796
Acts -The TESDA Law

10 REPUBLIC ACT No. 7836

-Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994

11 REPUBLIC ACT No. 7877

-Anti Sexual harassment Act of 1995

12 EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 27

-the inclusion of subject courses on human rights in the school curricula,
textbooks, and other reading materials
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13 EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 189
Acts -All public Secondary School teachers under the administrative
supervision and control of DECS.
-Issued by former President Corazon Aquino.

14 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 6-A

-known as the Educational Development Decree of 1972, and was
implemented by the late former President Ferdinand Marcos.

15 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 146

-this decree requiring ALL senior high school students to pass the
National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) as pre-requisite for
admission to any post- secondary academic or professional degree
program.

16 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No.451

-this law repealed R.A No. 6139 and authorized the Sec. of Education
and Culture to regulate the imposition of tuition fee and other school fees
in all private educational institutions.
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17 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 688
Acts -This law gave the Civil Service Commission the power and authority to
give the appropriate examination for all public school teachers.

18 PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1139

-this decree issued on May 13, 1977, created the position of the
undersecretary for NON-FORMAL Education who shall make an overall
assessment of the existing non formal education programs and shall take
charge of all non-formal education programs of DECS.

19 DEPARTMENT ORDER No. 1, s.1973

-this DECS order reiterates the policy on the use of locally published
textbooks of Filipino authorship in all levels of education, both public and
private.

20 DEPARTMENT ORDER No. 25, s.1974

-The implementation of BILINGUAL EDUACATION Program which
mandates the use of English and Filipino as separate media of
instruction.
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21 MEC ORDER No. 22, s.1978
Acts -ALL institutions shall offer in all their curricular programs at least six (6)
units of Filipino, starting the FIRST SEM Of school year 1979- 1980.

22 DECS ORDER No. 30, s. 1993

-this order issued on May 20, 1993, providing for a National Elementary
Achievement Test (NEAT) for ALL grade six pupils in Public and Private
schools