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S E N A T E  
S. No. I091 
Introduced by Senator Edgardo J. Angara 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Among the main problems confronting the educational system in 
the country today, aside from lack of adequate funds and low teacher 
salaries, are staffing problems in remote school sites, educational 
inequities in terms of access and quality of education and inadequate in- 
service training of teachers. 
These problems are found in other parts of the world and they 
have found that adopting emerging educational technologies in the 
education market place are effective in addressing these problems. 
Thus, Heller ( 1990) talks about the application of telecommunications 
technology to distance learning, which is live video teleconferencing in 
the business environment. Another innovative delivery approach is the 
use of mobile automated learning labs or MALLS found in pilot areas of 
the U.S.A. 
Brooks and Per1 (1990), on the other hand, underscore the 
increasing ability of interactive training systems and the development of 
multi-media/ hyper media equipment that combines sound, pictures and 
full-motion video into computer software systems. 
There is no doubt that the effective adoption of these technologies 
will also revolutionize Philippine education as in the developed countries 
of the world. 
However, our country has limited resources in developing 
indigenous leading-edge educational technologies. 
We also need to be 
judicious in adopting these technologies, i.e. when they become more 
affordable. 
This will take place either because the costs would have 
dropped significantly or because of the recognition that benefits have 
expanded exponentially or both. However, we should take care that we 
do not end up with obsolete, hand-me-down educational technologies 
just because they are expensive or donated to us. 
This bill seeks the establishment of a Center for Leading Edge 
Educational Technologies (CLEET), which will bring together the 
academic, technological and economic forces that can advance the 
educational promise of affordable technologies. 
It will be dedicated to 
the development of the appropriate educational materials for use in these 
emerging technologies. To be able to do this, we need to train people to 
be CLEET experts and acquire a critical mass of equipment and software, 
centrally located in a high-technology facility. 
The CLEET will be a partnership of the government and the private 
sector. 
Its thrust would. be education and information technology 
combined, but its operations should have a heavier emphasis on the 
information technology aspects. 


The Board of Trustees will include, among others, the Secretary of 
the Department of Education (DepEd); Chairman of the Commission on 
Higher Education (CHED) ; the Chairman of the Technological Education 
and Skills Development Authority (TESDA); representatives of other 
government agencies and the academe. 
The CLEET’s day-to-day 
operations will be managed by a director, who is also a member of the 
Board of Trustees. An Advisory Committee will assess the state of the 
country’s education and education technology. 
The CLEET will be created to focus the collective resources of 
government and the private sector into a national force for innovation in 
education. 
Its initial capital endowment comes from the national 
government. 
Eventually, its funds will come from both the government 
and the private sector. 
Every year, the DepEd, CHED and TESDA will 
allocate a portion of their annual budget to the Center’s support. 
Private sector support for the CLEET can be enlisted through 
membership by companies or organizations for a specific period of time. 
Their contribution to the CLEET can come in the form of fund, personnel 
and equipment, particularly at the initial stage. Program expenses can 
be raised from gifts, grants,. endowments and funds raised from donors 
and the company memberships. 
The CLEET will train educators, trainors and practitioners from 
across the nation to influence the directions of educational technology. 
The premise is that educational priorities should lead, rather than react 
to the development of affordable educational technologies. The goal is to 
assemble a high- technology facility for accessing leading-edge hardware, 
software and materials and a core of leadership to determine these 
priorities and to bring technology to bear on them as appropriate. First 
priorities will be areas of manpower developments and the educational 
curricula that are of broad importance and that are amenable to the 
educational promise of technology. 
In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly requested. 
EDGARDO J. ANGARA 


THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC 
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OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
S E N A T E  
S. No. 
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Introduced by Senator Edgardo J. Angara 
AN ACT 
TECHNOLOGIES, PROVIDING FOR ITS ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, 
POWERS AND FUNCTIONS, AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF 
FUNDS THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
CREATING 
THE 
CENTER 
FOR 
LEADING-EDGE 
EDUCATIONAL 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
Philippines in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Charter of the 
Center for Leading-Edge Educational Technologies .” 
SEC. 2. 
Declaration of Policy and Objectives. - It is hereby 
declared the policy of the State to rationalize and integrate a 
comprehensive approach in bringing together the academic, technological 
and economic forces which will initiate, promote, sponsor, assist, pursue, 
support and conduct programs, projects and studies geared towards 
training, research, development of the educational promise of affordable 
technologies and other related sciences of fields of endeavor, 
SEC. 3. 
Center For leading-Edge Educational Technologies; 
Creation and Principal Place of Business (CLEET). - To implement the 
State policy and pursue the objectives of this Act, there is hereby created 
a non-stock, non-profit, non-s,ectoral and non-political body corporate to 
be known as the Center for Leading-Edge Educational Technologies or 
CLEET, hereinafter referred to as the Center, which shall be organized 


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and operated in the public interest, and to be jointly funded by both the 
government and the private sector. 
The Center shall have its principal place of business in Metro 
Manila, Philippines: Provided, however, That the Center may, from time 
to time, establish and maintain branches in or outside of the Philippines 
whenever such action is necessary or requisite in the furtherance of its 
purposes and objectives. 
SEC. 4. Corporate Powers. - Aside from the general powers, rights, 
privileges and attributes allowed or permitted by law, the Center shall 
have the Following powers and functions: 
1. To design and develop training programs using leading-edge 
educational technologies for knowledge transfer and skills training; 
2. To develop training programs using appropriate strategies and 
media to identified target audiences; 
3. To prepare and implement an accreditation and equivalency 
program using leading-edge educational technologies for students from 
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the informal and non-formal sectors to enter the mainstream of formal 
education or the world of work in business and industry; 
4. 
To initiate and conduct seminars, publications, reports, 
workshops, educational campaigns, conferences, conventions, fora and 
symposia on matters, subjects and topics pertaining to or involving 
leading-edge educational technologies significant to practitioners, 
teachers, students, and private and public entities; 
5. 
To collect, compile, collate, evaluate, analyze and study 
activities, data and materials pertaining to or involving leading-edge 
educational technologies and to this end, to publish or disseminate 


information through researches, studies, workshops, conferences, 
symposia or fora and other activities of the Center; 
6. 
To 
review 
general 
and 
specific/ disciplinary 
hardware/ courseware tools from educational perspectives; 
7. 
To 
develop 
functional 
requirements 
for 
new 
educational/ training tools; 
8. To study the implications of technology for the areas of the 
curriculum; 
9. To legitimize the role of instructional technology in the 
educational community; 
10. To develop prototype tools, software and educational materials 
in response to identified needs; 
11, To facilitate collection and serve as clearing house of literature 
on leading-edge educational technologies; 
12. To aid, assist or coordinate with any individual, corporation, 
association, organization or entity, public or private, in the achievement , 
pursuit and conduct of any or all of the foregoing activities and 
objectives; 
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13. To acquire, secure or obtain by purchase, lease, barter or any 
other legal means of acquisition such real and personal properties as 
may be necessary and proper to maintain its offices or facilities, or to 
carry out the programs or projects initiated, sponsored or assisted by the 
Center; 
14. To raise and maintain a fund with which to compensate its 
operating management and staff and to finance the programs, projects or 
undertakings which the Center have initiated, promoted or conducted; 


15. To receive and accept funds, real or personal properties in the 
form of donations and/or grants in the furtherance of the purposes and 
objectives of the Center; 
16. 
To invest the funds of the Center in such securities of 
investments as may be deemed advisable in the furtherance of the 
objectives and the purpose of the Center, and in connection thereto, to 
enter into any all kinds of contracts, arrangements and undertaking, not 
contrary to or prohibited by law , with any person, corporation, or entity; 
17. To borrow money or funds or obtain and/or arranged such 
credit or credit accommodation as may be required or necessmy for its 
operations, programs, and projects and in connection thereto to secure 
the same by the pledge, mortgage or other lawful arrangements and; 
18. To perform and engage in any and all acts, matters and things 
which may be necessary, proper and convenient for the accomplishment 
or achievement of the objectives and purposes of the Center. I 
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SEC. 5. Board of Trustees. - The Center shall be governed and its 
aciivities shall be directed, controlled and managed by a Board of 
Trustees which shall be composed of thirteen (13) members. The 
members of the Board of Trustees, whoin are to serve until their 
successors are elected and qualified as provided by the by-laws of the 
Center, shall be as follows: , 
1. Secretary, Department of Education, Culture and Sports 
(DECS), Chairman of the Board; 
2. Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DOST); 
3. Secretary, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE); 
4. Chairman, Commission 09 Higher Education (CHED); 
5. Chairman, Technical Education And Skills Development 
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6. President, National Public Broadcasting System; 
7. President, National Inter-University Forum on Education; 
8. Representative, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and 
Ind u s t ry ; 
9. Representative, .Employers Confederation of the Philippines; 
10. Representative, Information Technology and Coordinating 
Council; 
11. The Director of the Center, as provided for in Section 6 
hereof. 
In addition, the President of the Philippines shall appoint two (2) 
representatives from the academe, who have gained reputations in the 
education community or academic circles as outstanding educators. 
SEC. 6. Director. - There shall be a Director of the Center to be 
appointed by the President of the Philippines for a term of four (4) years, 
and who, aside from being a member of the Board of Trustees, shall be in 
charge of the day-to-day operations of the Center. 
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SEC. 7 Advisory Board. - There shall be created an Advisory Board 
whose function is to assess the current state of the country’s education 
and education technology, and recommend policies and measures that 
will enhance technology adoption and technology transfer. 
The members of the Advisory Board shall be appointed by the 
President of the Philippines, and they shall come from both the academic 
community and the other field of science and technology. They shall meet 
at least once every three months, and such other time as may be 
requested by the President or as they may deem necessary. 


SEC. 8. Appropriations. - The Department of Education, Culture 
and Sports (DECS), the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), and 
the Technical Education And Sltills Development Authority (TESDA) 
shall, every year, allocate a portion of their annual budget for the support 
of the Center. 
SEC. 9. Tax Exemptions. - The provisions of existing laws to the 
contrary notwithstanding, all gifts, grants, endowments, funds, and such 
other dodations, personal or real, from donors and company 
memberships shall be exempt from the donor's or transfer tax. 
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SEC. 10, Applicable Law. - The provisions of Batas Pambansa 
Bilang Anirnnapu't Walo (B.P. Blg. 68), as amended, otherwise known as 
the Corporation Code of the Philippines, not otherwise in conflict with 
this Act, shall apply in suppletory manner. 
SEC. 11 Repealing Clause. - Any provision of other laws 
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inconsistent with this Act is hereby repealed or amended accordingly. 
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12 Separability Clause. - If, for any reason, any part or 
provision of this Act is declared invalid or unconstitutional, any part or 
provision not affected thereby shall remain in full force and effect. 
SEC. 13 Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
Approved,