Preamble
WHEREAS, private schools, colleges and universities have been faced with increasingly serious problems arising from decreasing incomes due to slump in enrolment and increasing operational costs brought about by the rise in prices of instructional materials and educational, as well as allied services; WHEREAS, it is imperative that private educational institutions upgrade classroom instruction by improving their facilities and hiring competent teachers in all levels of education, provide salary and/or wage increases and other benefits to their teaching, administrative and other personnel to keep up with the increasing cost of living; WHEREAS, the procedure prescribed under R.A. No. 6139 for the increase of tuition and other school fees has been proved to be too cumbersome and time-consuming, and is not conducive to the growth and improvement of private educational institutions and the well-being of their employees, particularly those in the lower income groups; and WHEREAS, in order to alleviate the sad plight of private schools, their personnel and all those directly and indirecty dependent on school incomes it is advisable and necessary that the cumbersome and time-consuming procedures fixed under. Republic Act No. 6139 for increasing tuition fees be simplified without opening the floodgates to abuse of the right to increase tuition and other school fees. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution do hereby decree and order the following as part of the law of the land: