Education Reform – 2001

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Education Reform – 2001

2001

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Article 104 states that “the management and control, and supervision of the entire educational system in the area of autonomy shall be the primary concern of the Regional Autonomous Government.” The Republic Act no. 9155 (also called the Governance of Basic Education Act) was passed in August 2001. Section 13 of the act states that the ARMM is responsible for the educational system in the autonomous region. Republic Act 9155 made primary education compulsory and free for children age 7-13, and secondary education free but not compulsory.1

King and Guerra report that in 2001 the GRP implemented a decentralized approach to education with respect to the ARMM.2

  1. “Philippines: World Data on Education,” UNESCO (2006/2007), accessed August 27, 2012, http://www.ibe.unesco.org.
  2. Elizabeth M. King and Susana Cordeiro Guerra, “Education Reforms In East Asia: Policy, Process, and Impact,” in East Asia Decentralizes: Making Local Government Work (World Bank, Washington D.C., 2005), 179-207.