Country: Philippines                          
Title:    Operationalizing the Instructional Materials Corporation
          and Designating the Textbook Board Secretary
Author:            Ferdinand E. . Marcos, Prseident of the
        Philippines.  
Institution:       Malacanang
Citations:         Letter of Instruction No. 1463.  
Descriptors:       Textbook; Educational personnel.  
Full text: WHEREAS, as part of the educational development program
  under Presidential Decree No. 6-1, the Government initiated in 1976
  a textbook project thru a World Bank loand to eliminate the
  textbook shortage in the public schools;

  WHEREAS, it is necessary that the Textbook Project be continued
  beyond the period of the World Bank loans on self-sustaining basis
  as an imperative towards the desired improvement of the quality of
  education;

  WHEREAS, an Instructional Materials Corporation (IMC) has been
  created under Executive Order No. 306 dated May 27, 1983 was a
  covenant under World Bank loan 2030-PH (Elementary Education Sector
  Program) in order to institutionalize the Textbook Project and
  strengthen its organizational effectiveness to perform more
  comprehensive function of providing the school system not only with
  basic textbooks but also other forms of instructional media and
  technology;

  WHEREAS, there is a need to institute measures in the interim to
  insure that the instructional materials production activities of
  the Government shall continue without undue interruption while the
  implementing details and measures for the operation of the IMC are
  being finalized;

  WHEREAS, under Presidential Decree No. 1416, as amended, the
  President is empowered to undertake such organizational and related
  improvements as may be appropriate in the light of changing and new
  developments;

  NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
  Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
  Order and Instruct:

  1.  The present staff of the Textbook Project otherwise known as as
  the Textbook Board Secretariat shall serve as the interim staff of
  the Instructional Materials Corporation pending the completion of
  the necessary implementing measures such as the new staffing
  pattern and the reallocation of appropriations.  The Corporation
  may secure the services of expert consultants on the same basis as
  that authorized for the Educational Projects Implementing Task
  Force;

  2.  The present Executive Director of the Textbook Board
  Secretariat or any other official of the Ministry shall be
  designated an Officer-in-Charge of the Corporation by the Minister
  of Education, Culture and Sports pending formal activation of the
  IMC by the appointment by the President of the General Manager and
  the members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation;

  3.  The powers relative to the effective implementation of the
  Textbook Project vested by Letter of Instructions No. 873 dated
  June 13, 1979 in the Textbook Board, which is abolished under
  Executive Order No. 806, shall be exercised by the
  Officer-in-Charge of the Corporation under the direct supervision
  and control of the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports;

  4.  Subject to the approval of the Minister of Education, Culture
  and Sports, the Officer-in-Charge shall recommend and implement
  corporate plans and policies as embodied in a budget of income and
  expenditures in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order
  No. 806;

  5.  All valid contracts, agreements, and other obligations entered
  into or incurred by the former Textbook Board and/or the Textbook
  project shall continue in forces and shall be honored by the
  Corporation;

  6.  From the applicable appropriations in the General
  Appropriations Act of 1985 (Batas Pambansa Blg. 866), including any
  unused allotments as of the effectivity of this order and future
  allotments and releases due the Textbook Project under Programs,
  Project Activity (P/P/A) Nos. 1.7.22, 1.7.23, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, and
  4.2.14 are reallocated and made available to the Corporation as
  corporate equity contributions or advance payment of the Ministry
  of Education, culture and Sports for textbooks and other
  instructional material and services as may be delivered by the
  Corporation to the Ministry;

  7.  This Letter of Instruction shall take effect immediately and
  the implementing measures needed to bring the IMC to full operation
  shall be completed within three months form its issuance.

  Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of May nineteen hindred
  and eighty five.