Schools are not allowed to collect class funds or school funds.

According to information reported by parents of An Hoi Primary School, Go Vap District and Nguyen Du Primary School, District 12, these schools continued to announce the collection of class funds for the second semester, even though the first semester fund had not been used up. Previously, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training announced that schools in the area were not allowed to collect class funds or school funds.

On the afternoon of January 25, Mr. Ho Tan Minh, Chief of Office of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, said that there is currently no legal document regulating class funds and school funds, so the Department's leaders have repeatedly affirmed that schools are not allowed to organize class funds or school funds.

Mr. Ho Tan Minh, Chief of Office of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training.

The Chief of Office of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training recommends that the Parents' Representative Board should not collect donations that are not voluntary or that do not directly serve the activities of the Parents' Representative Board.

According to him, class fund and school fund are common terms people often use to refer to the operating expenses of the class Parents' Association and the operating expenses of the school Parents' Association.

Accordingly, the operating expenses of the Parents' Representative Board are stipulated in Article 10 of Circular No. 55/2011/TT-BGDDT dated November 22, 2011 of the Ministry of Education and Training promulgating the Charter of the Parents' Representative Board.

Specifically, the operating budget of the Class Parents' Representative Committee comes from voluntary support from parents and other legal funding sources for the Class Parents' Representative Committee.

The operating budget of the school's Parents' Representative Board is taken from the operating budget of the class Parents' Representative Boards, according to the recommendation of the plenary meeting of the class Parents' Representative Board heads at the beginning of the school year, and other legal funding sources for the school's Parents' Representative Board.

The collection and expenditure of funds by the Parents' Representative Board must ensure the principles of transparency and democracy; after spending, the financial settlement must be publicly reported at the class-wide meetings of parents and the school-wide meetings of the Parents' Representative Board; there is no regulation on the average level of support funding for parents.

The Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City has issued guidance documents every year. During the process of managing, checking and inspectingeducational institutions, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City has made direct adjustments so that units can comply with regulations.

Trinh Trang

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