An Act Creating a Board of National Education Charged with the Duty of Formulating General Education Policies and Directing the Educational Interests of the Nation

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1124

An Act Creating a Board of National Education Charged with the Duty of Formulating General Education Policies and Directing the Educational Interests of the Nation

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. There is hereby created a Board of National Education which shall formulate, implement and enforce general educational objectives and policies, coordinate the offerings, activities and functions of all educational institutions in the country with a view to accomplishing an integrated, nationalistic and democracy-inspired educational system in the Philippines.

Section 2. The Board of National Education shall be composed of fifteen members as follows:

These eight members shall serve for a period of four years: Provided, That, in the first appointment, two members shall be appointed for one year, two or two years, two for three years, and two for four years.

Section 3. The Secretary of Education or, in his absence, the Undersecretary of Education shall act as Chairman of the Board. The Chairman and members of the Board shall serve in an honorary capacity and shall receive no compensation or remuneration for their services as such, except that they shall be paid traveling expenses to and from meetings of the Board that they attend.

Section 4. The Board shall have the following powers and functions:

Section 5. It shall be the exclusive agency of the Government for the implementation of educational policies and the direction of the educational interests of the nation, subject only to the constitutional authority of the President of the Republic over executive departments, bureaus and offices.

Section 6. The Chairman of the Board shall have the following duties and functions:

Section 7. The Board shall appoint its Secretary and may request for the detail in its office of such personnel as it may need from the Department of Education or any Bureau of Office under it.

Section 8. All acts, executive orders, administrative circulars or regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Section 9. The sum of one hundred thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Section 10. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 16, 1954.