An Act to Amend Republic Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Twenty-Four Entitled "An Act Creating a Board of National Education Charged with the Duty of Formulating General Educational Policies and Directing the Educational Interests of the Nation"

REPUBLIC ACT No. 4372

An Act to Amend Republic Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Twenty-Four Entitled "An Act Creating a Board of National Education Charged with the Duty of Formulating General Educational 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. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-four is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 2. Section two, of Republic Act Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-four is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 3. Section three of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 4. Section four of the same Act is hereby amended by adding and inserting therein, subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows:

Section 5. Section five of the same Act s hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 6. Section seven of the same Act is amended to read as follows:

Section 7. Section nine of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 8. All laws, rules and regulations contrary to the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Section 9. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 19, 1965.

"Sec. 1. There is hereby created a Board of National Education which is hereby authorized to formulate general education objectives and policies, coordinate the offerings, activities and functions of all educational institutions in the country with a view to carry out the provisions of the constitution and to accomplishing an integrated, well rounded nationalistic and democracy-inspired educational system in the Philippines."

"Sec. 2. The Board of National Education shall be composed of eight members as follows:

"Sec. 3. The Secretary of Education shall act as Chairman of the Board. A Vice-Chairman shall be elected from among the members of the Board who shall act as Chairman in the absence of the Secretary of Education. The Chairman and members of the Board shall be entitled to a per diem of fifty pesos (₱50) for actual attendance of the meeting of the Board which shall not exceed five hundred pesos (₱500) a month.

The Board shall have a regular meeting at least twice a month and may have as many social meetings as may be necessary at the call of the Chairman or any three members thereof."

"Sec. 5. It shall be the agency of the Government for the formulation of educational policies and the directly of the educational interest of the nation, subject only to the constitutional authority to the Congress and the President of the Republic over executive departments, bureaus and offices."

"Sec. 7. The Board shall appoint a Secretary who shall have the rank of undersecretary of a department and shall have a secretariat composed of an administrative, research, and technical staff as may be necessary to carry out its determined, whose qualification and compensation shall be determined by the Board subject to existing laws: Provided, That no officer or employee in the existing staff of the compensation lower than that now received by him or to which he is entitled under existing laws."

"Sec. 9. The sum of One million pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the national Treasury not otherwise appropriated."