9 public school service fees in Ho Chi Minh City are allowed to be collected in the new school year

Grade 9 students in Ho Chi Minh City in the 2023-2024 school year - Photo: MY DUNG

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Council (HĐND) has passed a resolution regulating revenue and collection levels, revenue and expenditure management mechanisms for services serving and supporting educational activities of public educational institutions in Ho Chi Minh City from the 2024-2025 school year.

The regulation on the ceiling of these service fees of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council aims to help parents know the fees, to monitor and avoid overcharging.

This is the second year that Ho Chi Minh City has issued regulations on the ceiling of service fees in public schools.

9 service fees that public schools are allowed to collect include:

- Firstly, the service of organizing and managing boarding hygiene . For group 1 students, preschool level, the maximum level for students is 550,000 VND/student/month; Primary level maximum is 350,000 VND/student/month; Secondary level maximum is 300,000 VND/student/month; High school level maximum is 250,000 VND/student/month.

For students in group 2, preschool level, the maximum amount is 500,000 VND/student/month; for primary school, the maximum is 320,000 VND/student/month; for secondary school, the maximum is 280,000 VND/student/month; for high school, the maximum is 230,000 VND/student/month.

- Second, breakfast service . Group 1 students: preschool level maximum 220,000 VND/student/month; primary level maximum 60,000 VND/student/month.

Students in group 2: preschool level maximum 200,000 VND/student/month; primary level maximum 50,000 VND/student/month.

- Third, after-school care and nurturing services (including caretaking services before and after school hours, excluding meals). Group 1 preschool level has a maximum fee of 12,000 VND/student/hour; Group 2 preschool level has a maximum fee of 11,000 VND/student/hour.

- Fourth, after-hours care and nurturing services (including babysitting services during holidays, excluding holidays and Tet, excluding meals). Group 1 preschool level has a maximum fee of 128,000 VND/student/day; Group 2 preschool level has a maximum fee of 120,000 VND/student/day.

- Fifth, childcare staff service . In which, the nursery block in group 1 and group 2 both have a maximum fee of 260,000 VND/student/month; The kindergarten block in group 1 and group 2 both have a maximum fee of 160,000 VND/student/month.

- Friday, initial student health check-up service (including school dental check-up) . Group 1 preschool students: maximum 70,000 VND/student/year; primary school: 60,000 VND/student/year; secondary and high school students: maximum 50,000 VND/student/year.

In this service, group 2 students are respectively 5,000 VND/student/year lower.

- Saturday, the service of using air-conditioner in air-conditioned classrooms includes electricity bill, air-conditioner maintenance fee, air-conditioner rental fee (if any) . For classes equipped with air-conditioners, students in group 1: the fee is as follows: preschool, maximum 50,000 VND/student/month; primary school: 45,000 VND/student/month; middle school and high school: 35,000 VND/student/month. This fee is also the maximum fee for students in group 2.

For classes that do not have air conditioning and must rent, the service fee for all preschool, primary, secondary and high school levels in groups 1 and 2 is the same, with a maximum of 110,000 VND/student/month.

- Eighth, utility services applying information technology and digital transformation. This maximum fee is regulated equally for all levels of education and groups 1 and 2. Accordingly, preschool, primary, secondary and high schools all have a maximum fee: 110,000 VND/student/month.

- Ninth, the service of picking up and dropping off children and students by car . For routes under 5km, it is regulated equally for all levels of education with a maximum of 10,000 VND/student/km; for routes 5km or more, the maximum is 8,000 VND/student/km.

In which, group 1 is students in Thu Duc City and districts of Ho Chi Minh City.

Group 2 includes districts: Can Gio, Binh Chanh, Hoc Mon, Cu Chi, Nha Be.

The collection rate must not exceed 15% compared to the previous year's collection rate.

Resolution 13 stipulates the revenue and expenditure management mechanism with the maximum revenue level as above, but the revenue level of each educational institution must not be higher than 15% of the same revenue of the institution in the previous school year.

Educational institutions must base on the actual situation of material facilities and student needs to develop revenue and expenditure estimates for each revenue item and submit them to competent authorities for approval.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/9-khoan-thu-dich-vu-truong-cong-lap-o-tp-hcm-duoc-phep-thu-nam-hoc-moi-20240822200718901.htm