School & Community Partnership

The problem of education is

everybody’s problem. As building
literacy is our collective
responsibility, so too is improving of
our schools, our collective
responsibility. We must build bridges
between the school and the
community.
Why are community partnerships
important to schools?
Partnerships are essential for helping
students achieve at their maximum
potential and, while parent
and community involvement has
always been a cornerstone of
public schools, greater recognition
and support of the importance of
these collaborative efforts is needed.
Legal Bases
Related to School-
Community
Partnerships
Provisions of the 1987 Constitution:
Section 1, Article XIV of the 1987
constitution provides that the state
shall protect and promote of all
citizens to quality education at all
levels and shall take appropriate
steps to make such education
accessible to all.
Section 2. The State shall:
(1) Establish, maintain, and support a complete,
adequate, and integrated system of education
relevant to the needs of the people and society;
(2) Establish and maintain, a system of free public
education in the elementary and high school
levels;
(3) Establish and maintain a system of scholarship
grants, students loan programs, subsidies, and other
incentives.
“Educational Development Decree of 1972”

Authorizing the undertaking of educational

development projects, providing for the
mechanics of implementation and
financing and for other purposes.
Section II. National Development Goals:
(a) To achieve and maintain an
accelerating rate of economic
development and social progress;
(b) To assure the maximum participation of
all the people in the attainment and
enjoyment of the benefits of such growth;
(c) To strengthen national consciousness
and promote desirable cultural values in a
changing world.
Section 3. To this end, the educational system aims to:
Train the nation’s manpower in the middle level skill
required for national development.
Develop the high level professions that will provide
leadership for the nation, advance knowledge
through research and apply new knowledge for
improving the quality of human life
Respond effectively to changing needs and
conditions of the nation through a system of
educational planning and evaluation.
Batas Pambansa Bilang 232
An act providing for the establishment and
maintenance of an integrated system of
education.

“Education Act of 1982”

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 access to education as well as the
enjoyment of the benefits of education by all its
citizens.
The state shall promote the right of the nations’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 achieveing national unity.
Republic Act No. 7722
An act creating the commission on
higher education, appropriating
funds therefor and for other
purposes.

“Higher Education Act of 1994.”