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Puerto Rico to Close 283 69传媒 Amid Sharp Enrollment Drop

By Andrew Ujifusa 鈥 April 10, 2018 1 min read
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Puerto Rico鈥檚 Education Department announced Thursday that it would close 283 public schools in the face of plummeting student enrollment.

The move would leave Puerto Rico with 828 public schools in a system that currently serves 319,000 students. Secretary of Education Julia Keleher said the closures will help the system better serve more students, given the island鈥檚 difficult financial situation. However, Aida D铆az, the president of the Asociaci贸n de Maestros de Puerto Rico, the island鈥檚 main teachers鈥 union that serves nearly 30,000 active teachers, said the move would damage more than just the educational system: 鈥淲e鈥檙e going to have communities that are not going to have any schools.鈥

Also last week, the union filed the suit in response to a new education law signed by Gov. Ricardo Rossell贸 late last month that allows charter schools and vouchers on the island, the Associated Press reported.

A version of this article appeared in the April 11, 2018 edition of Education Week as Puerto Rico to Close 283 69传媒 Amid Sharp Enrollment Drop

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