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DepEd adjusts tuition-related consultation, application periods for private schools

Published Mar 26, 2021 04:41 pm

The Department of Education (DepEd) has made adjustments to the period of consultation and application for changes in tuition and other school fees by private educational institutions in light of the adjusted school calendar for this school year.

Education Secretary Leonor Briones (DepEd / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)

Education Secretary Leonor Briones, through DepEd Memorandum No. 011 s. 2021 dated March 22, made the announcement in view of the adjustments made to the school calendar for SY 2020-2021.

These adjustments, Briones said, consequently “necessitate adjustments to the school calendar for the upcoming SY 2021-2022.”

Briones noted that the adjustment in the periods for consultation and application will “provide private educational institutions ample time to assess the necessary fees, as well as fully comply with consultations and other requirements.”

DepEd noted that “deadline for consultation is extended from March 30 to June 30, 2021” while the deadline for submission of application and documentary requirements has been “extended from May 15 to August 15, 2021.”

However, DepEd clarified that adjustment shall “apply to consultation and application for changes in tuition and other school fees that will be charged in the upcoming SY 2021-2022 only.”

Related to this, DepEd also instructed its Regional Directors to “review the application of new and/or increase in tuition and other school fees in light of its reasonableness for the continued delivery of basic education services under flexible modes and the requirements under existing, applicable policies.”

Pursuant to Section 181 of DepEd Order (DO) No. 88 s. 2010, otherwise known as the 2010 Revised Manual of Regulations for Private Schools and its amendment through DO 11 s. 2011, any private school - which desires to revise its rates of tuition or other school fees or charges, or to impose other fees or charges - shall “file application" with the Regional Director. 

DepEd added that pursuant to Section 182 of the same DO, “any proposed increase in tuition or other school fees, as well as new fees or charges shall be subjected to appropriate consultations conducted by the school with the duly organized student government and with the parents of the students.”

Likewise, DepEd also noted that the DO 12 s. 1997 “provides that consultations must be completed not later than March 30 of every school year and that applications shall be submitted not later than May 15 of every school year.”

Pursuant to Republic Act (RA) No. 11480 (An Act Amending Section 3 of Republic Act No. 7797, Otherwise Known as An Act to Lengthen the School Calendar from Two Hundred (200) Days to Not More Than Two Hundred Twenty (220) Class Days), the opening of classes for SY 2020-2021 was moved to October 5, 2020.

However, private or non-DepEd schools that had already started classes - or were scheduled to start classes on August 24 or on other dates ahead of October 5 - were allowed to proceed “provided they strictly use distance learning modalities only and that there are no face-to-face classes.”

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