To make the long story short, Chaplain W.D Mckinnon organized the first teaching force from the soldier volunteers of the occupying army. Then, the Public Elementary system was established by the Department of Education under the second Philippine commission by the organic act of 1901 prescribing English be taught and used as the medium of instruction for all schools. After that, President William Mckinley changed the policy through the secretary of war, Elihn Root, so that local languages were to be used for education as a medium of instruction together with English as the principal foreign language. However, two years later, they returned to the norms of using English as a medium of instruction.
After 20 years of the initial contigents, 9% are Filipinos, Filipino teachers. Filipinos learned English from Filipinos which is now called Philippine English.