The act additionally provided the general framework for school empowerment by strengthening the management roles of principals and fostering transparency and native accountability for varsity administrations. However, a gradual increase at school enrollment has hindered revisions to the then-implemented experimental educational system. In line with the Filipinization policy of the federal government, the Reorganization Act of 1916 provided that every one division secretaries except the Secretary of Public Instruction should be natural-born Filipinos. Colegios were opened for boys, ostensibly the equivalent to present-day senior high colleges. The Universidad de San Ignacio, based in Manila by the Jesuits in 1589, was…
