1. Republic Act No.

4670 June 18, 1966 - the MAGNA CARTA FOR

PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS
2. Republic Act No. 6655 - "Free Public Secondary Education Act
of 1988."
3. Republic Act No. 7722 - The Higher Education Act of 1994,
was signed into law by former President Fidel Valdez Ramos on
May 18, 1994, creating the Commission on Higher Education
(CHED)
4. Republic Act No. 7796 - Technical Educational and Skills
Development Act of 1994 or the TESDA Act of 1994.
5. Republic Act No. 7877 - "Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995."
6. Republic Act No. 8292 - The Higher Education Modernization
Act of 1997
7. Republic Act No. 8972 - Solo Parents Welfare Act of 2000
8. Republic Act No. 9155 - "Governance of Basic Education Act of
2001."
*From DECS DepED
9. Republic Act No. 9262 - Anti-Violence Against Women and
Their Children Act of 2004.
10.
Republic Act No. 9293
7836,

known

as

- An act amending R. A. NO.

the

"PHILIPPINE

TEACHERS

PROFESSIONALIZATION ACT OF 1994"

11.
Republic Act No. 9442 - An act amending R.A. No. 7277,
known as MAGNA CARTA FOR DISABLED PERSONS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES
12.
Republic Act No. 9994 - "Expanded Senior Citizens Act of
2010."
13.
Republic Act No. 10533 - Enhanced Basic Education Act
of 2013. K-12
14.
Executive Order No. 356, s. 2004 renaming the Bureau
of Non-Formal Education to

Bureau of Alternative Learning

System (ALS)
15.
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO 1006 Professionalization of
Teachers, Regulating their Practice in the Philippines and for other
purposes

Educational Decree of 1863 Spanish time

On December 20, 1863, Spain promulgated an educational decree for

reforming the educational system in the Philippines.
During the early Spanish occupation, education for the Filipino people
centered on religion and primarily for the elite, especially in the first
years of Spanish colonization.
Prior to that, early Filipinos taught their children at home, focusing
more on vocational skills than academics. There were also tribal tutors,
but there was no structured educational system.
With the enactment of the Educational Decree of 1863, it liberalized
access to education, which provided for the establishment of at least
one primary school for boys and girls in each town under the
responsibility of the municipal government.
Act No. 74, Education Act of 1901 American time
[No. 74.] AN ACT establishing a Department of Public Instruction in
the Philippine Islands, and appropriating forty thousand dollars
($40,000) for the organization and maintenance of a normal, and a
trade school in Manila, and fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the
organization and maintenance of an agricultural school in the island of
Negros for the year 1901
*to bring to Philippines 600 American teachers Thomasites
BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG 232 - "Education Act of 1982."
An Act providing for the Establishment and Maintenance of
an Integrated System of Education
Batas Pambansa (BP) Blg. 232, more popularly known as the
Education Act of 1982, signed into law by then President
Ferdinand Marcos on September 11, 1982. This seminal law
governs both formal and non-formal education systems in public and
private schools in all levels of instruction in the country.
The Education Act of 1982 created the Ministry of Education, Culture
and Sports which later became the Department of Education, Culture
and Sports (DECS) in 1987 by virtue of Executive Order No. 117.

PHILIPPINE EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA)

What is EFA 2015 Plan?
The Philippine Education For All (EFA) 2015 is a vision and a holistic
program of reforms that aims at improving the quality of basic
education for every Filipino by 2015.