And the local education department is not as technologically advanced as other state education departments, nor as able to disseminate best practices. For example, Puerto Rico does not have a ...

Puerto Rico’s Education Department, long considered a bureaucratic behemoth, will be decentralized to better serve students, officials said Monday. The announcement comes amid continuing ...

Puerto Rico’s governor pledged Thursday to improve the island’s crumbling electric grid and boost the economy in her first ...

This content was published more than 5 months ago. The controversial resignation of the secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education, Yanira Raíces Vega, adds another chapter to the ...

Maraida Caraballo Martinez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Communidad Jaime C. Rodriguez for the past seven. She never ...

Of the $5.312 billion Education budget certified by the Fiscal Oversight Board for this fiscal year, $2.433 billion is federal funds. (Xavier Araújo) ...

In February, Puerto Rico’s Education Department noted that schools with a high number of Dominican students saw absentee rates of up to 70%. Officials have since ordered school principals to ...

Students in Puerto Rico have experienced a series of natural disasters in recent years, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and landslides, followed by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, that has ...