THE Department of Education (DepEd) has allowed more than 1,000 private schools nationwide to increase their tuition and other school fees for school year 2015-2016.

Initial figures obtained from the DepEd on Monday showed that out of the 1,556 private schools that applied for tuition increase, 1,246 were approved. The average increase across the regions is 7.87 percent.

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