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Introduced bv 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-medidhyper 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, 
technoIogica1 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, I;, 


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 CLEETs 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 member ships . 
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. 
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EDGARDO J. ANGARA 
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SENATE 
Introduccd by SENATOR EDGARDO J. ANG‘IRA 
AN ACT CREATING THE CENTER FOR LEADING-EDGE 
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES, PROVIDING FOR ITS 
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, POWERS AND FUNCTIONS, 
AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF 
FUNDSTHEREOF,ANDFOROTHERPURPOSES 
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.” 
SECTION 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, 
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Center 
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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-sectoral 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 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 
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such action is necessary or requisite in the furtherance of its purposes and 
objectives. 
SECTION 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 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, 
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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; 
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(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; 
(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; 
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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 necessary 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. 
SECTION 5. Board of Trustees. - The Center shall be governed and 
its acitivities shall be directed, controlled and managed by a Board of 
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the Board of Trustees, whom 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 (DepED), Chairman of the 
Board; 
(2) Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DOST); 
(3) Secretary, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE); 
(4) Chairman, Commission on Higher Education (CHED); 
(5) Chairman, Technical Education And Skills Development Authority 
(TESDA); 
(6) President, National Public Broadcasting System; 
(7) President, National Inter-University Forum on Education; 
(8) Representative, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry; 
(9) Representative, .Employers Confederation of the Philippines; 
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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. 
SECTION 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. 
SECTION 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. 
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SECTION 8. Appropriations. - The Department of Education 
(DepED), 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. 
SECTION 9. Tax Exemptions. - The provisions of existing laws to 
the contrary notwithstanding, all gifts, grants, endowments, funds, and such 
other donations, personal or real, from donors and company memberships 
shall be exempt from the donor's or transfer tax. 
SECTION 10. Applicable Law. - The provisions of Batas Pambansa 
Bilang Animnapu'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. 
SECTION 11. Repealing Clause. 
~ Any provision of other laws 
inconsistent with this Act is hereby repealed or amended accordingly. 
SECTION 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. 
SECTION 13. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect upon its 
approval. 
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