Decisions to Reduce Big School Tuition … Overbudget and Huge Profits

Faten Al-Hajj wrote in the newspaper “Al-Akhbar” under the headline “Audit Exposes Exaggerations: School Cartel of Unexplained Convictions”: “For the first time in many years, the Special Education Authority of the Ministry of Education applied Article 13 of the School Budget Act (515/1996), Regarding the use of the British accounting and auditing firm (ZACA Association) to carry out statutory audits of budgets that were the subject of a dispute between private school administrations and parent committees, in an exceptional academic year marked by a prolonged interruption of face-to-face education.

The results of the audit of around 100 budgets showed exaggerations in their figures, and the percentage of reduction of school enrollment recommended by the company ranged between 5% and 55%, and in a large number of schools it exceeded 45% ” , which shows that private schools have obtained enormous benefits in recent years, which it would have had if there was a mechanism of periodic scrutiny of their budgets in an adequate and legal way “, according to a member of the legal coordination body in the Union of Parents and Parent Committees in Private Schools, attorney Malak Hemmeh.
The Lycée Verdun Parents Committee (affiliated to the French Secular Mission) was informed of the result of the audit by the urgent affairs judge, that school enrollment must be reduced by 16 percent, in accordance with the provisions of the Law 515/1996, plus a 25 percent discount for the current situation and the Corona pandemic and school closings. For 90 days, from the events of October 17, and for successive periods.
Furthermore, as a result of the objection of the Parents Committee of the National Evangelical School in Nabatiyeh, a report was issued recommending that the tuition for the 2019/2020 academic year be deducted by 7.5 percent, and another deduction of 28 percent due to the Corona pandemic and the disruption, and therefore the total deduction is 35.5 percent, on the full enrollment for the year. Academic 2019/2020. ” Read the full article Press here