Title:
ACADEMIC MATURITY OF PRIVATE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IN HANDLING BASIC EDUCATION

Authors:
Josephine F. Garcia- Contreras ,Philippines

Abstract:
Everyone is entitled to be educated regardless of one’s race, religion, or wherever country an individual originated. Everybody must be given an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from public education. It is one of the human rights that should be enjoyed by everyone and shall be made accessible to all. In Batas Pambansa 232, it is stipulated that the government should secure basic education that will offer the fullest possible development of each learner to live morally, creatively, and productively and opens avenues for opportunities to every individual in uplifting the quality of his life and to possess key for self-advancement not merely for own selfimprovement but to contribute to national development. This is the reason why the state assigned the highest budgetary allocation to education. Having more than 27 million Filipino learners, public schools in the Philippines are not capable of accommodating them all. Hence, it is stipulated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution Article XIV Sec. 4 (1) that the state recognizes the complementary roles of private institutions in the educational system and shall exercise reasonable supervision and regulation of all educational institutions. It is therefore acknowledged by the state that private schools play an important role in delivering education to 27 million Filipino learners who cannot be accommodated by the public schools in the Philippines.....