QuestionsQuestions (BOC CUSTOMS MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 37-2011)
The Order covers DECS Regional Directors (RDs), Assistant Regional Directors (ARDs), Schools Division Superintendents (SDSs), Assistant Schools Division Superintendents (ASDSs), District Supervisors, and Principals (Elementary and Secondary), including their posting and subsequent transfer or reassignment.
No. Appointments to these positions are national in scope and may not necessarily be division- or region-specific, based on a national ranking of applicants/candidates.
The Secretariat of the National Search Committee (NSC), organized through DECS Memorandum No. 305, s. 1998, announces vacancies, gathers all applications, and determines who are to be included in the list of qualified applicants/candidates.
The NSC meets as a panel to evaluate submitted documents, conducts interviews, gathers background information, and may conduct other selection tests/procedures as deemed necessary, then prepares a list of ranking candidates.
The DECS Secretary submits to the Office of the President names of at least three (3) recommendees for every position to be filled up, whenever possible, with the supporting documents required by the Office of the President memorandum dated July 7, 1998.
A short list of the most ranking applicants/candidates is sent to the region where the vacancy exists. The regional director consults the Local School Board in accordance with the Local Government Code of 1991, then forwards to the DECS Secretary the names of at least three (3) recommendees for each position to be filled up.
The DECS Secretary submits the list of recommendees to the Office of the President together with the required documents.
Transfers/Reassignments of RDs and ARDs shall be done every three (3) years, but they may be retained in the same region for another three (3) years only.
Transfers/Reassignments of ASDSs and SDSs shall be done every five (5) years.
As a matter of policy, no ARD and ASDS shall be promoted in his/her region and division of assignment, respectively.
Transfers/Reassignments of the above officials are at the discretion of the Secretary of Education in consultation with the National Search Committee and the Regional Director concerned. The exigency of the service is a basic consideration.
Selection and appointment to District Supervisor and Principal positions (elementary and secondary) are the responsibility of the Schools Division Superintendent.
DECS Order Nos. 8 and 54, s. 1993; the 1995 DECS Qualification Standards Manual; and other relevant rules and regulations.
They are division-specific and not school-specific; thus, they may be transferred to any district or school within the division when the need arises.
Transfers/Reassignments of District Supervisors and Principals shall be done every five (5) years.
Under exceptional circumstances, particularly in the exigency of the service, and subject to the discretion of the Secretary, the tenure of service of the officials in a given station may be shortened or extended beyond what is stated in the Order.