Effects of the Implementation of School-Bases Management and Local Goverment Unit Support on the Level of Performance of the Eight Public Schools in Lucban, Quezon towards Optimal Attainment of Basic Education Goals

Abstract

For most people around the world, quality education seems to be the one of the hardest things to attain. Hence, this posts the greatest challenge to the government and international agencies in the education sector that has been committed to address these issues. Democratization in the education remains to be elusive, since there are still a lot of children coming from indigenous groups and marginalized families who has limited access to education. The Philippine government adapted the School-Based Management to address the issues prevailing in the education sector. It aims at empowering school levels through delegating the powers and authorities to school administrators and encourages collaborative participation from different stakeholders like the parents and other organizations, to fully achieve the democratization in education. In 1991, the government instituted the school-based management nationwide with the promulgation of R.A 9155 as its legal cover. On one hand, the government mobilized the support of the local government units in order to respond to the wide ranging needs in the education sector. Under Republic Act 5447, the law created a Special Education Fund (SEF) and Local School Boards. The law authorizes local government units to collect additional one percent on real property tax which shall be accrued to Special Education Fund. Local School Boards are tasked to decide which aspects of spending in education should be given more priority. The currently concluded study reveals that there is a strong linear relationship between the level of implementation of school-based management and education performance of basic public schools. Hence, the higher the level of implementation of the school-based management the better results in education performance of schools. Meanwhile, in terms of the extent of LGU support to basic public education, it shows that each index of basic education performance is statistically correlated with the total SEF expenditures. This means that hundred percent of the variation in all those stated indicators is explained by the extent of LGU support through SEF expenditures. Empirically, it is confirmed that the higher performance of schools on quality, access and efficiency is likely to occur when substantial local support through SEF are utilized for basic education. In view of the above stated findings, it is recommended to the Municipal Council that they need to pass and promulgate local ordinances that will institutionalize reform in SEF allocation and expenditures aimed at improving the accountability and transparency mechanisms of the local levels pertaining to SEF allocation.