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Preference trained teachers contracts.
Dr. John Eaton, former U.S. Commissioner of Education and his assistant Dr. Victor Clark, state that Puerto Rico teacher should learn English. Preferences would Masters ready to be hired. -
Creation of the Department of Education in Puerto Rico.
Se crea el Departamento de Instrucción Pública con Comisionado asignado. -
Education Policy
Education policy was to retain the Spanish and acquire English. They offered English as special subject in the elementary grades. In high school all subjects in English and Spanish as a special subject. Emphasis in American culture. -
English as official language.
Increased the use of English in public schools with the idea of making it the official language of Puerto Rico's public schools. -
Project of law.
Act for compulsory Spanish as the medium of instruction. Recommendation of the use of Spanish in the judicial process. -
Spanish as the medium of instruction.
It established Spanish as the medium of instruction in grades 1° to 4 °. The English half of the subjects of the 5th grade and the other half in Spanish. Policy in grades 6 through 8 and high school. -
World War I
It unleashes the First World War and the Puerto Ricans were granted citizenship. You are required to be told school students acts of patriotism. -
Another Commissioner of Education.
John B. arrives Bachelor Huyke as Commissioner of Education. Emphasis is placed on the use of English by taking the opportunity to learn. It requires teachers and students to use English outside of school. Huyke spent time in Puerto Rican disappear. -
Difficult time in PuertoRico.
During this time of recession, the polical seeking alternative language proposed sobresaliete factor. They said that the difference between the American and Puerto Rican. Commissioner Dr. Jose Padin turn stated that English was a foreign language from the point of view pedagíco. He struggled to put the Spanish as the medium of instruction. Spend English as a special subject. -
Complaints of President of the United States.
U.S. complains that Puerto Ricans had not learned English after 38 years of American occupation. Joseph M. Gallardo tried to implement a bilingual program and do not permiteron. -
End the debate on bilingualism.
The Commissioner of Education, Dr. Mariano Villaronga ended the lengthy discussion of bilingualism. Decreed vernacular teaching at all levels of public school. -
Request for funds to the United States.
There is a linguistic and cultural situation of students returning to Puerto Rico from the United States. The department of education and universities requesting federal funds to address the needs of the student population. This program addresses these needs is called Bilingual Education. -
Bilingual projects.
Implanted in Puerto Rico under the Popular Democratic Party government projects in school bilingual Padre Rufo and Pope John XXIII. -
Congressional authorization of the United States.
The U.S. Congress authorized appliance that bilingual education projects in Puerto Rico have the focus to learning Spanish students returning to the education system of Puerto Rico. -
Longer Bilingual Education program.
Under the leadership of Carlos Romero Barceló (PNP), the bilingual education program longer projects program and transfers its English department (this department was far too long without a conductor). -
New census does apply for federal funds.
Popular Democratic Party back to power under the leadership of Rafael Hernández Colón. A new survey shows that in the educational system are 15.436 student back. This information is used to request funds and serve this cause. (approving projects). -
Again autonomous projects Bilingual Education.
Education Secretary Jose Arsenio Torres appointed a property manager to lead the Bilingual Education program. -
Translate from: English"Project to Create a Bilingual Citizen."
In 1997, while the statehood party was in power, English immersion programs also made their way into Puerto Rican schools, under the “Project to Create a Bilingual Citizen.” The Escuela Elemental Bilingue de Cidra, nestled in Puerto Rico’s central mountains, is one of the eight schools remaining of 55
that took part. -
Puerto Rico aims to become bilingual.
Governor Luis Fortuño proposed a plan to require all public schools to teach all courses in English instead of Spanish. Under this plan students will be bilingual public school in 10 years.
