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First Steps to ‘Decentralize’ Puerto Rico's Department of Education Involve Hiring PNP Members
By Tatiana Díaz Ramos | July 10, 2024
An ambiguous Senate-approved regulation keeps the Secretary of the Department of Education central to decision-making, failing to ensure community participation.
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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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