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CPI Sues Puerto Rico Department of Education for Withholding Information on Heat Relief in Schools
By Centro de Periodismo Investigativo | July 23, 2025
On June 27, 2025, the CPI formally requested copies of reports detailing evaluations of air conditioning systems and electrical substations in 709 school facilities.
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Puerto Rico’s Education Department Still Under Receivership: When Will It End?
By Tatiana Díaz Ramos | April 1, 2025
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.
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Department of Education Is Planning a New Wave of School Closings
By Tatiana Díaz Ramos , José M. Encarnación Martínez | January 14, 2022
The Puerto Rico Department of Education’s (DE) “vision of the future” proposes the closing of another 83 schools by 2026, affecting 18,644 students, according to a new infrastructure master plan to which the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish) had access, although in May 2021 Interim Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés pledged that the agency […]
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