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Commonwealth–Parkville School (CPS), founded in 1952, and incorporated in Puerto Rico, is a private, college preparatory day school. It is a non-sectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational institution governed by a board of directors. CPS provides an integrated PPK–12 curriculum in English with a strong program in Spanish.
List of high schools in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican Tests of Academic Achievement. Secretary of Education. Higher education. Education Council. List of universities and colleges in Puerto Rico. Non-profit organizations. Coalition for Equity and Educational Quality. Sapientis.
By the 1970s, bilingual programs were introduced to 113 of the schools in Puerto Rico. [25] In 2012, pro-statehood Governor Luis Fortuño caused controversy when he proposed that all courses in Puerto Rico public schools be taught in English instead of Spanish as they currently are. [26]
While Spanish is the first official language of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, English is the second official language. English is taught in all Puerto Rican schools and is the primary language for all of the U.S. federal agencies in Puerto Rico as one of the two official languages of the Commonwealth, the other one being Spanish, which has been the predominant and primary language for the ...
t. e. The Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDOE; Spanish: Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico) is one of five jurisdiction-wide public education systems in the United States, with Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa being the others. The PRDOE is the state education agency in charge of managing public schools ...
The José Celso Barbosa Graded School (Spanish: Escuela Graduada José Celso Barbosa) is a historic school building located in the Puerta de Tierra historic district in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The school is named after Puerto Rico statehood movement founder Dr. José Celso Barbosa and has been listed in the National Register of ...
Civilian Public Service firefighting crew at Snowline Camp near Camino, California, 1945. The Civilian Public Service (CPS) was a program of the United States government that provided conscientious objectors with an alternative to military service during World War II. From 1941 to 1947, nearly 12,000 draftees, willing to serve their country in ...
5 July 1868. (1868-07-05) (aged 77) San Juan, Puerto Rico. Rafael Cordero y Molina (October 24, 1790 – July 5, 1868), known as Maestro Cordero, was a self-educated Afro–Puerto Rican who provided free schooling to the children of his city regardless of race or social standing. He is also known as the "Father of Public Education in Puerto ...