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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1422 -
DIRECTING ACTION TO NORMALIZE SCHOOL ACTIVITIES IN CALAMITY AFFECTED
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The Minister of Public Works and Highways
The Minister of Local Government
The Minister of the Budget
The President, Government Service Insurance System
WHEREAS, the recent typhoons "Maring" and "Nitang" seriously affected schools in various provinces and cities of the country, from Northern Luzon to Mindanao;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to take all possible measures to restore normalcy in the schools system;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by Law, do hereby Order and Instruct;
1.
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sports and the Minister of
Public Works and Highways shall immediately assess the damage to
school-buildings and other facilities shall estimate the minimum
requirements for replacement or repair. These estimates shall be
submitted to the President as soon as completed, as basis for further
action;
2. The
Minister of the Budget shall release the sum of three million pesos
(P3,000,000) to cover the most urgent repair needs as determined
jointly by the Ministers of Education, Culture and Sports and of Public
Works and Highways, pending the completion of the assessment under No.
1 above;
3. The
Minister of Education, Culture and Sports shall assess the damage to
school equipment (particularly desks, tables, blackboards, and other
classroom equipment) and to textbooks, workbooks and other basic
teaching material and shall submit these to the President, as basis for
further action;
4. Minister of
the Budget shall release the sum of two million pesos (P2,000,000) to
cover the most urgent needs for school equipment, books and other
teaching material;
5. The
acquisition of school equipment shall be limited to those that can be
supplied by vocational/technical schools without sub-contracting. The
acquisition of textbooks and workbooks shall be limited to the printing
and distribution of books written under the Textbook Production
Project. The replacement of other teaching material shall be limited to
the distribution of a cash payment to affected teachers in order to
allow them to purchase chalk, erasers, crayons and pentel pens,
cartolina, thumb tacks and other similarly basic classroom essentials;
6. The
Minister of Local Government and the Minister of Education, Culture and
Sports shall instruct Local School Boards to reprogram their respective
budgets so as to eliminate all postponable items in favor of repair and
rehabilitation related purposes, with particular emphasis to the repair
of buildings, school desks and other classroom equipment. Expenses
otherwise earmarked for the purchase of posters, supplementary readers,
reference works, and other teaching material purchase commercially from
sources other than the Textbook Production Project shall be suspended
indefinitely. Any exceptions earlier approved by the President for the
purchase of such material are hereby revoked;
7. The
President of the Government Service Insurance System shall initiate an
emergency salary loan program for teachers and education support
personnel who need such funds for the purpose of rehabilitating their
damaged home.
Done in the City of Manila, this sixth day of September, nineteen hundred and eighty four.
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