This is an administrative case against Mr. Daniel M. Salcedo, Director of Private Schools, for (1) nepotism on four counts; (2) favoritism on six counts; (3) toleration of irregularities; (4) abuse of discretion or authority on three counts; (5) unjust and oppressive treatment of visitors and employees, and unprofessional attitude on five counts; (6) electioneering on four counts; and (7) misrepresentation of facts relative to the training, experience, and efficiency of employees of the Bureau of Private Schools on two counts.

A committee created by the Secretary of Education investigated the charges, except that of electioneering which was also the subject of Criminal Case No. 29966 filed against the respondent in the Court of First Instance of Manila. The committee finds that the charges have not been established. Nevertheless, it believes that the respondent erred in failing to advise Dr. Manuel L. Carreon, then Director of Private Schools, of the former ™s relationship with Mr. Candelario C. Quinto whom Dr. Carreon appointed as supervisor and in occasionally wearing undershirt only in the office when feeling very warm. For these mistakes, the committee recommends that the respondent be admonished and warned to be more careful in his actuations in order to avoid similar complaints. The Secretary of Education concurs in this recommendation.

As to the charge of electioneering which, as above stated, was the subject of Criminal Case No. 29966 of the Court of First Instance of Manila, it appears that the respondent was acquitted in the decision of the court promulgated on December 14, 1955. On the basis of said acquittal, I lifted respondent ™s preventive suspension on December 21, 1955, and ordered his immediate reinstatement.

The findings and recommendations of the Investigating Committee are well taken. Wherefore, the respondent is hereby admonished and warned to be more careful in his actuations in order to avoid similar complaints. He shall be paid his salary corresponding to the period of his preventive suspension.

Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary