The Coordinadora Nacional de Colegios Privados that groups private schools in the DR said it is finalizing the case the organization will present to the Supreme Court of Justice regarding government regulation of school tuition. Fauntly Garrido, executive director of the organization, says that the schools do not oppose there being an organization that regulates the quality of education, but it does oppose the unilateral setting of the pricec of their services by the government. Law 86-00 establishes that tuition increases would take place every three years. Garrido explained that small increases are easier for families to absorb than a large increase every three years. Furthermore, he said that once the tuition increase restriction starts, schools could resort to cutting costs by eliminating subjects such as music, art, computer classes and others that are not required by the Ministry of Education. He said that the gap in the quality of public and private schools would be breached with the private schools lowering their quality. "As soon as our capacity for growth and qualitative improvement is affected, we will all be the same, not improving, rather lowering the quality of educaton. Today if a school abuses, parents always have the possibility of changing schools, because we compete against each other," he argued.
