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Because of damage caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017, a shrinking population, deteriorating infrastructure, and the Puerto Rican government-debt crisis, 283 schools were closed in Puerto Rico by 2018. The literacy rate of the Puerto Rican population is 93%; when divided by gender, this is distributed as 92.8% for males and 93.8% for females.
Mariano Villaronga Toro (9 November 1906 - 7 March 1987) was a Puerto Rican educator and Commissioner of Public Instruction in Puerto Rico from 1946 to 1957. Under his leadership as Commissioner of Public Instruction, three major institutions that still stand today were put in place: the Department of Education Printing Press, the public radio and television educational service, and the Free ...
The PRDOE is the state education agency in charge of managing public schools in Puerto Rico as well as the island's education system and curricula. [1] The department, headquartered in Hato Rey, San Juan, [2] is the result of a United States state department of education. It is also the largest agency of the executive branch of Puerto Rico ...
Puerto Rico was 98.9% Hispanic or Latino in 2020, of that 95.5% were Puerto Rican and 3.4% were Hispanic of non-Puerto Rican origins. Only 1.1% of the population was non-Hispanic. [287] The population of Puerto Rico according to the 2020 census was 3,285,874, an 11.8% decrease since the 2010 United States Census . [9]
El Centro, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies or Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, is a university-based research institute whose mission is to produce, facilitate, and disseminate interdisciplinary research about the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. and to collect, preserve, and provide access to archival and library resources documenting the history and culture of Puerto Ricans.
Edward Moreno Alonso is a Puerto Rican educator and former Secretary of Education of Puerto Rico . Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and resident of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico earned a Bachelor of Arts in Language Arts from the University of Puerto Rico. Then, in 1992, he completed a Master's degree in Administration and Supervision of the ...
t. e. The secretary of education of Puerto Rico is responsible for the development and management of all educational matters in the government of Puerto Rico and heads the Department of Education. [2] There have been three types of secretaries in the history of Puerto Rico. The first were the education commissioners established in 1899 after ...
The Puerto Rican Division of Community Education (Spanish: División de Educación de la Comunidad, DIVEDCO) was an agency established in 1949 with the purpose of producing cultural materials for public education on the island of Puerto Rico. Local writers, artists, community organizers, filmmakers and musicians were employed by DIVEDCO to ...