Title
Training and appointment of special teachers
Law
Act No. 3349
Decision Date
Sep 18, 1927
Philippine Law Act No. 3349, enacted in 1927, establishes a program to train and appoint special teachers from specific provinces, with a focus on Muslim and non-Christian communities, to contribute to the education system in their own communities.

Issuing Authority and Power

  • Section 1 authorizes and directs the Director of Education to select students through a competitive examination.
  • Section 1 directs the Director of Education to select students from eligible groups for training to become teachers.
  • Section 1 authorizes the Director of Education to promulgate rules and regulations governing the selection and training of the students.
  • Section 1 authorizes the Director of Education to promulgate rules for the students’ assignment as teachers.

Policy Purpose and Program Structure

  • Section 1 establishes a program to train selected students in normal schools with the objective of appointing them as public school teachers in designated provinces.
  • Section 1 links program admission to competitive examination and later teacher appointment.
  • Section 1 requires contractual commitment to teach and refund obligations if teaching service is not performed.
  • Section 2 supplies program funding by appropriating a fixed amount dedicated to carrying out the Act’s purposes.

Covered Provinces and Eligible Groups

  • Section 1 limits the student selection program to the special provinces of Mindanao, Sulu, Palawan, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province.
  • Section 1 authorizes selection of Mohammedan students from among eligible Filipinos.
  • Section 1 authorizes selection of non-Christian Filipinos from among eligible Filipinos.
  • Section 1 provides that selected students shall be trained in any insular or provincial normal school in the Philippine Islands.

Competitive Examination and Selection

  • Section 1 requires student selection through a competitive examination.
  • Section 1 provides that students must be selected from among the eligible groups residing in the covered special provinces.
  • Section 1 requires that students passing the examination proceed to the definite selection stage.
  • Section 1 provides that definite selection occurs only after the students sign a required teaching contract.

Training, Contractual Commitment, and Refund Obligation

  • Section 1 provides that passing students will study in normal schools to be later appointed as teachers in public schools in the covered provinces.
  • Section 1 requires students passing the examination to sign a contract before definite selection.
  • Section 1 requires the contract to bind students to teach for such time as may be required by the Director of Education.
  • Section 1 requires the contract to include a refund obligation: the student must refund to the Government such sums as they may have received, or such portion thereof as the Director may fix, if the student refuses to teach during the required time without sufficient cause.

Rules on Selection, Training, and Assignment

  • Section 1 authorizes the Director of Education to promulgate rules and regulations.
  • Section 1 requires these rules to govern the selection of the students.
  • Section 1 requires these rules to govern the training of the students.
  • Section 1 requires these rules to govern the students’ assignment as teachers.

Appropriation and Funding

  • Section 2 appropriates money from the Insular Treasury.
  • Section 2 appropriates funds out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
  • Section 2 appropriates the amount of thirty thousand pesos.
  • Section 2 states that the appropriation is to carry out the purposes of the Act.

Effect of Approval

  • Section 3 establishes that the Act’s effectivity occurs upon its approval.

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