Posted on 04/06/2018 12:01:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's Department of Education announced Thursday that it will close 283 schools this summer following a sharp drop in enrollment amid the island's long economic slump and the continued departure of families after Hurricane Maria.
Education Secretary Julia Keleher said there would be no layoffs, with teachers and other employees being reassigned to other schools as part of a fiscal plan that aims to save the department some $150 million.
The U.S. territory currently has more than 1,100 public schools that serve 319,000 students.
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PDJT or thr NRA will get the blame.
Well, when one-fourth of your population moves to Florida you might need to close one-fourth of your schools...
Exactly, they left and went to Florida.
Its what happens when you give a perfectly good island to a bunch of devolved mexicans. Didnt the folks in mississippi have things up and running within weeks of Katrina completely leveling their towns? Oh wait the people there got to work themselves rather than waiting on government to help them.
283 schools closing and almost 40,000 fewer students - but there will be no lay-offs of teachers or staff.
It's a socialist workers paradise, I tells ya!
Good luck digging yourselves out of your financial troubles, PR.
“”” there would be no layoffs, with teachers and other employees being reassigned to other schools”””
Only in government can they close 25% of their operation and have no layoffs.
Unfortunately, many puerto ricans have moved to the US so as to take advantage of welfare and so forth.
And Florida schools are having to come up with the resources to school all of those kids, some non English speaking.
I wish them the very best of luck during this summer school shut down which ,of course ,is normal anyway. Can you imaging going to school in 95 degree heat and 100% humidity. Hell hole conditions.
And Florida schools are having to come up with the resources to school all of those kids, some non English speaking.
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Almost 100% are non-English speaking ,, There is not one English language radio station in P.R. ,, I worked in telecom and if we ever needed to contact the PR office there were only 2 our of 300 employees that we could effectively communicate with.
I go to the PHilippines twice a year. They ALWAYS get hit by an average 10 typhoons, HUNDREDS get killed per year and they simply rebuild.
They dont whine and bitch like these clowns and simply get on with their lives. These ass clowns are pathetic and un-American to just blame others when you can simply just get on with life...
One reason why PR can’t declare independence. There would be nobody left, they’d all flee to the US before they lose their citizenship.
At one point, the Philippines was a US Territory, just like Puerto Rico, yet the Philippines managed to gain their independence, while PR didn’t. Why is that?
because Puerto Ricans are lazy leeches?
Thanks. Since I wasn’t knowledgeable, I was thinking maybe since PR is our territory they would at least teach the kids English.
There has been a fair bit of self help in PR as well. Some communities have set up their own community solar electricity. I traveled along the Gulf Coast road a year after Katrina. Mississippi had pretty much cleaned up along the roads. In Louisiana there were still heaps of ruined house flood debris along the main roads. On radio there was a lot of complaining that the federal money was about to run out and it had not been used to clean up.
A good number of teachers, in the hundreds, close to a thousand, are on temporary contracts and those will not be renewed.
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