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Teachers needed to learn English
In between 1898-1900, Dr. John Eaton, United States Ex Education Commisssioner and Dr. Victor Clark (his helper) established that puerto rican teachers needed to learn English. -
Department of Public Instruction
In 1900 the Department of Public Instruction was created with an assignated Commissioner. -
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Educational Policy
Educational policy was to retain the Spanish and acquire English. The Spanish in the elementary grades teaching English as a special subject. In High School all subjects were in English and Spanish was taught as a special subject. -
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English as medium of Instruction
Between 1905-1913 Spanish is suppressed. English is used as medium of instruction in all grades of the school system. -
Law establishes Spanish as medium of instruction
In 1915 a Law was presented to make Spanish the compulsory medium of instruction. -
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Spanish medium of Instruction
In 1916-1934 it was established that the Spanish were the medium of instruction from first through fourth grades and English were used in half of the subjects and in the fifth grades the other half would be taught in Spanish. This same policy applied for grades six through eight and also in high school. -
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Miller defends English and Jose de Diego defends Spanish
This was the time of Miller's defense in English and Jose de Diego in the Spanish defense. He put greater emphasis on the use of English outside classes, teacher meetings and conversations between teachers and students. Only published material in English and in Spanish publishing materials was banned completely. -
Bilingual Program unsuccessful
Commissioner Jose M. Gallardo tried to implement Bilingual Programs but didn't succeed. -
Spanish prevails
English continues as a subjecto. Spanish is the main teaching language through sixth grade. -
Spanish is taugh as main of instruction
The vernacular was used as a way of instruction up to ninth grade. -
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Debate ended 1949-1950
1949- 1950 Dr. Mariano Villaronga established that Spanish would be taught at all levels of the public school, ending the debate on bilingualism. -
Bilingual Act, Tittle VII
President Johnson signed the United States Bilingual Act. -
Bilingual Projects implemented PPD
1972-1976 Father Rufo and Juan VIII- Bilingual Projects were implemented in Puerto Rico under the Democratic Popular Party. -
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Bilingual Program is transfered to English Department
1980-1984 Governor Carlos Romero Barceló transfered the Bilingual Program to the English Department. -
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Hernanadez elected -English as a Second Language
1988-1992 Rafael Hernndez Colón was elected as a Governor. Four new projects were approved for the Department of Education in different universities to emphasized English as a second language -
Spanish is the official language
Governor Rafael Hernández Colón declared Spanish the island's sole official language -
Two official languages
Both English and Spanish became official languages, and should be use indistinctively in all goverment agencies. -
Bilingual Citizen Project
An English immersion program was developed as a pilot. Both English and Spanish were taught in public shools. -
Spanish is the official language
Spanish was declared as the sole official language of the Puerto Rican governmemt -
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Bilingual Education Program
Puerto Rico implements the Bilingual Education for the 21st century.
