the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Commonwealth Act No. 313
“ With the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, the Director of Education is authorized to operate and maintain regional national vocational trade schools of the Philippine School of Arts and Trades type and regional national vocational agricultural high schools of the Central Luzon Agricultural High School type either by converting existing trade schools and agricultural schools at suitable localities to the type of the Philippine School of Arts and Trades and the Central Luzon Agricultural High School, respectively, or by establishing new schools. ”
