The Department of Education has been unable to recruit school psychologists in 10% of schools. The Humacao school district has 16 unfilled positions. Meanwhile, the psychologists already hired expose poor working conditions.
Educators have also not received the promised incentive for teaching classes on the island municipality.
A woman talks about the reprisals she faced from the nominated Secretary of Education, Yanira Raíces Vega, for not approving the appointment of an administrative assistant who was recommended by the mayor of Orocovis and the former Deputy Secretary of Education, Héctor Joaquín Sánchez.
Héctor Joaquín Sánchez Álvarez convocó a cuatro empleados del Departamento de Educación, que servían de jurado en el Premio de Maestro y Director del Año 2022, para decirles a quiénes debían favorecer.
During the 2021-2022 school year, the Department of Education (DE) referred only 197 students with disabilities to have an initial evaluation by their teachers, among 13,233 students who were “eligible for the transition process” to adult life.
The San Juan Superior Court is pressuring parents to express themselves within 10 days about the agency’s intention to archive clauses of the case’s partial sentence.
Education canceled the contract or constitutive letter of what would be the branch of the South Bronx Charter School for International Cultures & the Arts (SBCSICA) in Puerto Rico. The termination of the agreement came after the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) ordered the agency “to show cause regarding the awarding of the contract,” 20 days after the CPI revealed that this charter had accusations from the Office of the Comptroller of New York and that an incorporator of the Neighborhood Association For Inter-Cultural Affairs–Puerto Rico (NAICA-PR), Richard Izquierdo Arroyo, pleaded guilty to embezzling funds from another nonprofit organization he chaired in New York.
Teachers still don’t have the materials they need to teach antiracism. The texts or brochures they have often distort or make invisible the African heritage.
