SECTION 1802 . Chief Officials of Bureau of Education . — The Bureau of Education shall have one chief and two assistant chiefs, to be known respectively as the Director of Education, the Assistant Director of Education, and the Second Assistant Director of Education. 

[1407-23 ( a ).] 

SECTION 1803 . Functions of Bureau of Education . — To the Bureau of Education is committed the administration of the public-school system and the supervision of the general school interests of the Philippine Islands, so far as the same may be authorized by law. Except as otherwise provided, the Bureau of Education is charged with the conduct and management of all special schools supported from Insular funds and with the administration of the School Law and such other laws as may be within the jurisdiction of  said Bureau. CAScIH 

SECTION 1804 . Powers and Duties of Director of Education.  — The Director of Education shall have the following powers and be subject to the following duties: 

( a ) He shall establish primary schools in every town in the Islands, where practicable. 

( b ) He shall have authority to establish night schools. 

( c ) He shall fix the salaries of teachers within the limits established by law. 

( d ) He shall fix the curricula for all public schools under his jurisdiction. 

( e ) He shall prescribe the authority to be exercised by the principal teacher of each school over the other teachers, if any, and his duties as teacher actually engaged in the work of instruction and in caring for the schoolhouse and school property. 

(f) He shall approve plans for the construction of schoolhouses to be built by the municipalities or provinces, and shall fix the amount of land required in each case. TASCDI 

( g ) He shall prescribe rules of hygiene to be observed in connection with the schools of the Islands. 

( h ) He shall have power to determine the towns in which teachers, to be paid out of the Insular Treasury, shall teach; and he may exercise this 

