The Ministry of National Education issued resolution 019770, through “Which establishes the parameters for setting the registration fees, pensions and periodic charges for the preschool, basic and secondary education service provided by private educational establishments for the school year that begins in 2022”.
In this way, the educational portfolio maintains in the document that the general increase in private institutions will be 4.4 percent, which corresponds to the value of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
(The best schools in the country, according to the Sapiens Research list).
However, this value may be higher depending on different variables. For example, it is established that establishments in the sector “That they support that the salary payment of at least 80 percent of their educators is subject to the salary scale that the National Government sets annually for teachers and teaching directors at the service of the State that are governed by Decree Law 2277 of 1979, may increase their rates by an additional 2.5 percentage points “.
This, added to other variables such as the regime to which it belongs the college, investments in biosecurity, among others, would allow a total increase of up to 7.7 percent.
The same resolution establishes that in the event that families do not make the timely payment of tuition or pension values, “Private preschool, elementary and middle school educational establishments may retain the evaluation reports of the students, unless the parents or those responsible for this obligation can demonstrate the impossibility of payment for just cause.”
(There are 2,898,352 students missing to return to public schools).
Despite this, the ministry recalled that non-payment does not empower the institutions to deny them the provision of the service and that “In no case are they authorized to prevent them from presenting evaluations, removing them from the classroom, excluding them from participating in pedagogical activities, and other academic activities.”
The resolution also states that educational establishments cannot engage in restrictive practices when they carry out The request for educational materials and may not require specific suppliers or brands, or establish mechanisms that in any way prevent the concurrence of multiple suppliers in the provision of these materials.
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