This agreement “allows us to more than halve the initial increase at 16.38% and from there travel a trail of 3.35% until JuneMassa announced.
The minister had indicated that in several jurisdictions increases were already being reported around 40% for the beginning of the year.
Along with this, Massa anticipated that he will seek an agreement with all jurisdictions so that private schools pay for electricity and gas services under a scheme similar to the one that exists for neighborhood clubsframed in the social task they carry out.
For his part, the Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk, announced that Eighteen provinces will adhere to the cap on increases in the fees of private schools agreed by the Government.
since 2001 and on subsequent occasions Private schools have been exempted by decree from employer contributions. This becomes especially relevant if one considers that in the country average private schools represent 25% of education, while in some, such as the City of Buenos Aires, they are close to parity with public education.
in december of 2019the Social Solidarity and Productive Reactivation Law in the Public Emergency Framework, it established, among other issues, new aliquots for employer contributions, exempted employers who own privately run educational establishments until the end of 2020and empowered the Executive Branch to extend the exemption, which was done by decree in 2021 and 2022.
On this occasion, the Government highlighted that “the main operating and financial cost of establishments privately run educational institutions is represented by the salary componentwhich includes the corresponding employer contributions”.
He further indicated that if not extended the exemption “would occur a disproportionate increase in employer contributions to be paid by the institutions, which would be even higher in jurisdictions far from the city and province of Buenos Aires, since the reductions from which these establishments currently benefit differ in the various areas and regions of the country in accordance with current regulations “.
In this sense, he stressed that “the increase in employer contributions will generate a significant increase in the budget items of the provincessince the state contribution not only contributes to the payment of the salaries of the curricular teachers but also to the payment of the employer contributions of those salaries”.
On the other hand, it indicated that “in cases in which the educational institute does not receive a state contribution, or receives it partially, the significant increase in employer contributions will cause significant increases in the value of the fees paid by families for educational services And it will affect their economy.
“It is a government priority. promote an education that is increasingly inclusive and generates opportunities for the entire Argentine territory,” concluded the decree.
In this same sense, the Government also included 310 products of the school basket in the Fair Prices program.
Source: Ambito
