Tatiana Díaz Ramos

Meta did not admit liability for the harm its Instagram and Facebook platforms cause among children and young people, but at least half of Puerto Rico’s settlement is expected to go toward remedies for minors.

Although the initiative was announced as starting in August, it will launch two months later.

Applications to the Puerto Rico Department of Education for vouchers, or educational certificates, that allow students to transfer to private schools fell 76% between 2020 and 2025.

Studies show that reading proficiently by the end of third grade is linked to students’ future academic success.

For lawyer and journalist David McCraw, defending press freedom is a value that must be protected not only by people who work in the media, but by the public as well, because democracy benefits when journalists are free to do their jobs.

Earlier this year, the Department of Economic Development and Commerce touted the cancellation of 23 tax decrees in 2025 as a major achievement after auditing nearly 2,000 beneficiaries under Puerto Rico’s Incentives Code. But it did not revoke the decree of this resident investor, who had been found guilty of fraud in California last summer.

VERDICT: FALSE

The office’s creation followed the April approval of the Fundamental Right to Religious Freedom Act.

The island’s Department of Education is losing students, in part, due to a cycle of constant school relocations, deteriorating facilities, and shortened schedules from noon to 5 p.m., which are stopgap measures that fail to address the core problem: an unrepaired infrastructure, despite the availability of funds.

Despite record heat in Puerto Rico as of August 2023, public schools remain unprepared for increasingly frequent hot days. School communities also grapple with ongoing power outages.

Families, mayors, teachers, and assistants are on high alert as the Trump administration threatens to cut funding for the Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which serve the poorest families in the United States, including its territories.

Contractor Edgardo Navarro Suárez, the brother of pro-statehood Representative Jorge “Georgie” Navarro Suárez, secured nearly $13 million in contracts to repair public schools in Puerto Rico and, over seven years, amassed $14.5 million in government contracts with various agencies.

In 2019, the federal government declared Puerto Rico's Department of Education (DE) as "high risk," requiring the appointment of a trustee or fiduciary agent. With the policy shifts under President Donald Trump, both the federal and local agencies remain silent on the future of this fiscal oversight role.

Verdict: True, but...

Valid documents not being accepted, and applications rejected without explanation are part of the problems with the digital platform operating since October 2023.

Act 22 requires resident investors to donate annually to nonprofit organizations in Puerto Rico. The CPI, using 2022 data, investigated multiple violations of this requirement, which is necessary to obtain the tax privilege.