Youth group Anakbayan on Monday slammed the Department of Education (DepEd) for allowing more than 500 private schools to raise tuition and other school fees in the coming school year. It has all but abandoned millions of learners and their parents and have sacrificed their futures on the altar of private profit,” Anakbayan Secretary General Einstein Recedes said. ADVERTISEMENTThe group said the tuition hike, which ranges from 5 to 10 percent, exacerbated by the two additional years in school due to the implementation of the K-12 program, was a burden to Filipino families. The group pointed out that DepEd, as the sole regulator of the education sector, should be blamed for implementing neo-liberal policies that force parents to pay and enroll children in private schools rather than in public schools. According to Recedes, the government is wasting billions of pesos in directly subsidizing private schools through the Education Service Contracting scheme and the Senior High School Voucher Program.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 28, 2018 09:00 UTC