Laws related to students or pupils

LAWS RELATED TO STUDENTS OR

PUPILSAaron James Lico

Reporter

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 80

• This Act provided for the organization of the Office of Adult Education under the Director of Adult Education who was appointed by the President with the consent of the Commission on Appointment. This office was charged to eliminate illiteracy, to provide for vocational guidance, and to give citizenship training.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 124

• This law requires private schools, colleges and universities having an enrollment of 300 or more to employ a part or full-time physician who will conduct an annual physical examination of their students.(Approved , June 14, 1947)• AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE MEDICAL INSPECTION OF

CHILDREN ENROLLED IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES


• This Act provides for compulsory education of seven years and made it mandatory on the part of the parents to enroll their children in public schools upon attaining seven years of age. (Approved, June 14, 1947)

• Section 1. This Act shall be known as the "Elementary Education Act of 1953."

Section 2. In pursuance of them of all schools expressed in section five, Article XIV of the Constitution, and as amplified by subsequent legislation, it shall be the main function of the elementary school to develop healthy citizens of good moral character, equipped with the knowledge, habits, and ideals needed for a happy and useful home and community life.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4206• This law prohibits the collection of contributions for the Red Cross, Anti-Tuberculosis, PTA’s, school athletic meets, medical and dental services or any other project or purpose, whether voluntary or otherwise, from school children of public primary and intermediate schools.• Under this law, persons found violating this provisions would be punished, either with fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the court.


• an act providing for state scholarship in science, arts and letters and for poor and deserving students, creating a state scholarship council to integrate, systematize, administer and implement all program of scholarship, and appropriate funds thereof.

SECTION 1.

• There shall be selected annually from the graduating classes of all public and private high schools throughout the Philippines poor but deserving students to be known as "State Scholars" who shall be granted state scholarships in science, arts, and letters and whose expenses, like tuition, matriculation, and other school fees, prescribe textbooks and equipment, board and lodging, clothing, travelling expenses, and miscellaneous allowances, shall be defrayed from funds appropriated by law or contributed from other sources for scholarship purposes.

SECTION 2

• Candidates for state scholarship shall possess the following qualifications:

1. They must belong to the first ten of their respective graduating classes, and attain and maintain such tests, standards, or criteria as will insure that they are specially gifted in the particular fields chosen by them;

2. They and their parents or, if the latter are already dead, other persons required by law to give support have no resources to finance them for higher education; 3. They must be good health, excellent moral character, and unquestionable integrity;

4. They must be natural-born citizen of the Philippines and must not be more than 21 years of age at the time of their selection.


• This act amended Republic no. 4206 the collection of contribution for Anti-Tuberculosis, Parent, Teacher Associations, School athletic meets, medical and dental service school children and teachers of public primary of intermediate and high school is hereby prohibited. provided however,that this prohibition shall not cover membership fees of school children in the Red Cross, the Girl Scouts of the Philippines, and the Boy Scouts of the Philippines.


• This act is known as the “Tuition Fee Law”. • This Act regulates the increases of tuition fees in private school, colleges, and universities. The law requires 180 days before effectively. The amount of tuition fees should not be beyond 15 percent of the basic tuition fees.

Section 3• Any private educational institution proposing to increase the

tuition and/or other fees being charged and/or collected by it for any course shall adopt the following procedure:• (a) At least 180 days before the school year, semester, or

term in which the increase is to be effective, it shall serve written notice thereof on the student council or government, or in case of schools or courses below the college or university level, on the Association of Parents, or in default thereof, the Parents-Teachers Association of the school concerned.

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 146

• This Decree is known as the National College Entrance Examination was promulgated with no other purpose but to regulate the admission of students to all four year or five year degree programs in the country so as to improve the quality of higher education and to distribute students among different courses, thus meeting the manpower needs of the country.

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