Authorizing Participation in the Fourth National School Enrollment Day on January 26, 1998

February 20, 1998 REVENUE MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 08-98 SUBJECT : Authorizing Participation in the Fourth National School Enrollment Day on January 26, 1998 TO : All Revenue Officials and Employees and Others Concerned For the information and guidance of all revenue officials and employees, quoted hereunder is Memorandum Circular No. 172 dated January 23, 1998 of the Office of the President on the above subject: "The National School Enrollment Day (NSED), which is held on the last Monday of January every year, as provided for under DECS Order No. 65, s. 1994, is basically intended to provide DECS with a reliable basis in planning the number of assignment of teachers, classrooms, textbooks and other school equipment and facilities for every school opening. prcd To ensure greater success in the implementation of this program, all officials and employees in both the national and local governments, as well as in government owned and/or controlled corporations and government financial institutions, who intend to enroll their children (at least 6 years old by June 1, 1998) in Grade I in any public school in the country, are hereby authorized to participate in the fourth NSED on January 26, 1998, and shall not be considered absent from office, provided they submit to their office heads a certification of such participation issued by the school official concerned. Heads of government offices, however, should take necessary measures to ensure non-disruption of the normal work flow. By authority of the President: (Sgd.) ALEXANDER P. AGUIRRE" Acting Executive Secretary All revenue officials and employees are enjoined to give this circular as wide a publicity as possible. LIWAYWAY VINZONS-CHATO Commissioner of Internal Revenue