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The Department of Education (DepEd) requires that any school applying for a tuition fee increase must, as a condition for the increase, offer full tuition scholarships to students from low-income families. The Sagrada Familia Elementary School is a Catholic school and has applied for a tuition fee increase. Under this regulation by the DepEd, it will end up giving tuition scholarships to a total of 21 students next year. At a cost of P50,000 per student, the school will lose a total of P1.05 million for next year.
(a) Is this DepEd requirement valid?
(b) If instead the DepEd requires a full tuition scholarship for the highest ranking students in each grade, determined solely on the basis of academic grades and rank, will the DepEd requirement be valid?
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IX.
a.
No. The requirement is not reasonable because, in effect, the State’s responsibility of providing free elementary education is being passed to the private schools. The State already affords free elementary education precisely for the low-income families. It is, therefore, absurd to give full tuition scholarships to elementary students based on their family’s income.
b.
Yes, as this requirement merely gives effect to the constitutional duty of the State to establish and maintain a system of scholarship grants and incentives which shall be available to deserving students in both public and private schools.
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