Legal Basis of

Education

MARK CHRISTIAN R. CATAPANG

TEACHER-I
ALITAGTAG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Definition of Terms:
Legal authorized by law
Law- the system of rules, principles &
regulations
Basis-the minimum, fundamental
constituents, foundation, or support of a
thing or a system without which the thing
or system would cease to exist

Something to ponder:

Legal Basis of Education

foundation of the Philippine
educational system governed by
underlying laws and principles to
accomplish goals and objectives
efficiently and effectively

Activity:
Watch the two video clips and
reflect on the ideas presented in
the clips.
What messages are
expressed in the given videos?

1987 PHILIPPINE
CONSTITUTION

Provisions of the 1987 PHILIPPINE

CONSTITUTION
The state shall protect and promote
the right of all citizens to quality
education at all levels and shall take
appropriate steps to make such
education accessible to all.
(Article XIV section 1)

Section 2. The State shall:

Establish, maintain, and support a
complete, adequate, and integrated
system of education relevant to the
needs of the people and society;

Section 2. The State shall:

Establish and maintain, a system
of free public education in the
elementary and high school levels;

Section 2. The State shall:

Establish and maintain a system of
scholarship grants, student loan
programs, subsidies, and other
incentives

VIII Article 194

Right for education comes from national
nature. Every child is entitled to be
educated by his family, by the state, by the
church.
Support of children as defined by the 1988
Family Code that includes schooling or
training.

BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG 232

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT AND
MAINTENANCE OF AN INTEGRATED
SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.

"Education Act of 1982."

Sec. 3. Declaration of Basic Policy

It is the policy of the State to
established and maintain a
complete, adequate and
integrated system of education
relevant to the goals of national
development.

Sec. 3. Declaration of Basic Policy

Toward this end, the government
shall ensure, within the context of a
free and democratic system,
maximum contribution of the
educational system to the attainment
of the following national
developmental goals:

Sec. 3. Declaration of Basic Policy

1. To achieve and maintain an
accelerating rate of economic
development and social progress;

Sec. 3. Declaration of Basic Policy

2. To ensure the maximum participation
of all the people in the attainment and
enjoyment of the benefits of such
growth; and

Sec. 3. Declaration of Basic Policy

To achieve and strengthen national
unity and consciousness and
preserve, develop and promote
desirable cultural, moral and
spiritual values in a changing
world.

 The State shall promote the right of

every individual to relevant quality
education, regardless of sex, age,
creed, socio-economic status, physical
and mental conditions, racial or ethnic
origin, political or other affiliation.

 The State shall

therefore promote and
maintain equality of
access to education as
well as the enjoyment
of the benefits of
education by all its
citizens.

The act further states:

The state shall promote the right of the
nation's cultural communities in the exercise
of their right to develop themselves within
the context of their cultures, customs,
traditions, interest and belief, and recognizes
education as an instrument for their
maximum participation in national
development and in ensuring their
involvement in achieving national unity.

The act further states:

that educational system shall reach out
educationally deprived communities in
order to give meaningful reality to their
membership in national society, to
enhance civic participation in the
community and national life, and to unify
all Filipinos to a free and just nation.

Aims:
Provide for a broad general education that
will assist each individual in the peculiar
ecology of his own society to:
attain his potentials as human beings
enhance the range and quality of
individual and group participation in the
basic functions of society,

Aims:
acquire essential educational
foundations of his development
into a productive and versatile
citizen.

Aims:
Train the nations man power in the middle
level skills required for national
development;
Develop professions that will provide
leadership for the nation in the
advancement of knowledge for improving
the quality of human life,

Aims:
Respond effectively to the
changing need and conditions of
the nations through a system
educational planning and
evaluation.

Rights and Duties of

Parents in the Education
of their Children

Rights:
Rights to organize themselves and/or with
teachers for the purpose of providing
forum for the discussion of matters
relating to the total school program, and
for ensuring the full cooperation of parents
and teachers in the formulation of efficient
implementation of such programs.

Rights:
Right to access to any official
record directly relating to the
children who are under their
parental responsibility.

Duties:
Duty to help carry out the educational
objectives in accordance with national
goals.
Duty to enable their children to obtain
elementary education and shall strive to
enable them to obtain secondary and
higher education in pursuance of the right
formation of youth.

Duties:
Duty to cooperate with the
school in the implementation
of the school program.

Rights and Duties

of Students

Rights:
Right to receive, primary through
competent instruction, relevant quality
education in line with national
development goals and conductive to
their full development as persons with
human dignity.

Rights:
Rights to guidance and
counseling services
Rights of access to his own
school records, the confidentiality
of which the school shall maintain
and preserve