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.
On June 27, 2025, the CPI formally requested copies of reports detailing evaluations of air conditioning systems and electrical substations in 709 school facilities.
Athletes recount the measures adopted to train under extreme temperatures.
A Government supplement includes misleading information about the number of schools. Also, about the investment in sports facilities and the number of municipalities that would benefit.
Nonprofit organizations that rescued closed public schools claim ownership of the properties to give continuity to projects in their communities but the government is moving in the opposite direction.
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.
