The government has repealed the regulation that set tariffs for private schools, and these institutions will no longer be required to report tuition and enrollment fees in advance or obtain state approval.
The deregulation of the tariff control system for private educational institutions, in place for over 30 years, was established through Decree 787/2025, published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette.
The regulation repealed Decree 2417/1993, which had obligated private educational institutions to notify families of the amount of tuition and fees, along with the payment method, deadlines, and surcharges for late payments.
To justify the decision, the government explained in the official text that the repealed regulation "presents limitations and requirements that hinder the adaptation of privately managed public schools to the country's educational and economic realities".
In this sense, it stated that the regime "was enacted in a different factual and normative context than the current one", noting that "at that time, the administration of education was under the purview of the national government".
In this regard, it pointed out that "this situation changed following the transfer of this competence to the provinces, in accordance with the federal principle of our constitutional organization, which justifies its review to adapt it to the current scheme of functional distribution".
Similarly, the Executive branch expressed that "the cost structure and, consequently, the tuition fees for education have changed since then, which also justifies the review of the aforementioned decree".
Faced with this scenario, it proposed that "the state's intervention in the regulation and financing of privately managed educational institutions, although aimed at guaranteeing educational quality, has had counterproductive effects that affect their operation and economic viability".
Along these lines, it affirmed that "this intervention, by requiring institutions to present tuition and fee amounts in advance, limits their ability to adapt to market fluctuations, preventing them from adjusting their prices according to economic reality and operational costs".
In this manner, the administration of Javier Milei considered that "the requirement for privately managed educational institutions to communicate tuition and fee amounts with considerable advance notice, along with the obligation to obtain prior state authorization to modify these values, creates an economic uncertainty for the institutions, which often set fees higher than necessary out of fear of facing costs that cannot be covered without state approval".
Consequently, it argued that "this price-setting mechanism harms families, who must face higher educational tariffs from the start of the academic year, limiting their ability to choose educational institutions suited to their financial means and, in some cases, forcing them to transfer their children to other institutions".
In the face of this panorama, it emphasized that "this situation constrains the right to property of educational institutions, which, as private entities, should have the freedom to set their contracting conditions and employee salaries without the need for state authorization".
At the same time, the government argued that "the predictable and fixed nature of the tariffs imposed by the state can lead to a deterioration in educational quality, since institutions cannot adequately respond to variations in the costs of supplies, salaries, and other operational expenses without first obtaining authorization from the corresponding authority".
In this context, it affirmed that "the principle of free contracting must be safeguarded, allowing educational institutions the right to define their price and compensation policies within the framework of fair competition and according to market demands".
