School Based Management

To further strengthen decentralization efforts at the school level and in line with Republic Act No. 9155 also known as Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001, the Department of Education (DepEd) shall continue providing School-Based Management (SBM) Grants as additional funds to public elementary and secondary schools, which shall be used to augment the school fund on Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses.

Jesli A. Lapuz – DepEd former secretary, stated and we quote, “our success as school managers depends on our positive attitude towards change. We must be the catalysts who will not only accept change and reforms, but also lead and manage these changes”

He also said that the school as key provider of education will be equipped to empower its key officials to make informed and localized decisions based on their unique needs towards improving our educational system through the implementation of School Based Management.

Republic Act 9155 (Sec. 2), as the legal basis of pursuing SBM, governance of basic education shall begin at the national level. It is at the regions, divisions, schools and learning center where the policy and principle for GOVERNANCE OF BASIC EDUCATION shall be translated into programs, projects and service develop and adopted and offered to fit local needs.

DepEd Order No. 230 s. 1999, further stressed in the context of SBM that decentralization refers to the transfer of responsibility for planning school empowerment, raising, allocating and managing resources from the central, regional and division levels down to the school sites.

Through SBM, the school head is showing the responsibility to run the school with supportive parents and the community, particularly in seeing to that school facilities and resources resulting to improve delivery of school success.

As part of the DepEd strategy for the implementation of the new system for basic education in the Philippines, the so called K to 12 program, the shift to a 12 year basic education cycle is the possible answer to the under performance of our educational system. This was the reported result of the EDCOM commission of Basic Education in 1992.

Through, at the very early stage of the K to 12 Basic Education Program in the Philippines, considering its set up mission of providing an accessible quality education for all Filipinos, and to prepare them for lifelong learning and self- realization to become more globally competitive in the job market, a graduate of Grade 12 in 2018 has to possess competencies in higher education as well as skills in entrepreneurship.

Republic Act 9155 (Sec. 2), as the legal basis of pursuing School Based Management, governance of Basic Education should begin at the National level. It is at the regions, divisions, schools and learning center where the policy of principle for Governance of Basic education shall be translated into programs, projects and service develop and adopted and offered to fit local needs.