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Jan 1, 1492
Colonizers...
1492- bilingualism in Puerto Rico took place between the Spanish colonizers and our first habitants. -
Unique personality...
1700 - The Taino, Spanish and African Influence had integrated to form a unique personality and culture Puerto Rican with a vigorous civil and religious life. -
The birth of a culture...
1800 - There Were Numerous expressions which culture evidenced the birth of a culture and a nation. -
Dr. John Eaton...
1898 - 1900 Dr. John Eaton, Former Commissioner of Education U.S.; states that Puerto Rico's teachers should learn English and that this preference would be ready to be hired. -
The first change...
1898 - The first change in Puerto Rican language policy even before the Treaty of Paris. -
Department of Public Istruction...
1900 - The Department of Public Instruction is establish with an assigned Commissioner. -
English and Spanish...
1900 - 1902 - The policy was to be retained educative Spanish and the English would be acquired: Spanish in the elementary grades and English as a specialty. In high school all subjects were in English and Spanish is taught as a specialty. -
English increased in the schools...
1902 - 1904 - Increased the use of English in schools with the idea to convert it in official language schools in Puerto Rico. -
Spanish is deleted...
1905 - 1913 – Spanish is deleted. English is used as medium of instruction in all grades of the school system. -
Increase in the number of licensed teachers...
1909 - 1910 - With an enrollment of approximately 35,000 students made possible to establish English as the base language in schools according to the increase in the number of licensed teachers to teach in English. -
Some courses in Spanish...
1913 - The Spanish was introduced in first grade for some courses, such as health and hygiene and recommended reading was done in Spanish. -
Spanish again...
1915 - Was presented a bill to make compulsory Spanish as medium of instruction. -
Fifty- Fyfty...
1916 - 1934 - Established that Spanish was the language of instruction in first through fourth grades and English were used in half of the subjects in the fifth grade and the other half in Spanish. The same policy was applied to grades 6-8 and in high school. -
English as Official Language...
1917 -. Continued political strife with political overtones and by 1917 the U.S. had decreed that the official language was English on the Spanish-speaking island. -
Miller vs. De Diego...
1921 - Paul G. Miller defended English and José de Diego defended Spanish. -
Americanization Time...
1921 - 1930 - The lawyer John B. Huyke performed Americanization plan for the island. -
English as a foreign language...
1930 -The Commissioner Dr. Jose Padin turn fuel the first to expose that English is a foreign language from the educational point of view and I struggle to impose Spanish as the medium of instruction. No leaving the English but is emphasized as a Second Language. Recommended bilingual education but with a continuous assessment shall be adjusted to the needs of Puerto Rico. -
Anybody speak English...
1936 - José Gallardo was appointed Commissioner of Education. The president of the United States complains that Puerto Ricans in 38 years have not learned to speak English. -
English and Spanish...
1942- Again prevail through sixth grade Spanish and English as a subject continued. -
Teaching Spanish in all grades...
1948 - Was used Spanish as the medium of instruction until the ninth grade but with Luis Munoz Marin in power, this established teaching Spanish in all grades. -
Spanish, Spanish...
1949 - The Commissioner of Education, Dr. Mariano Villaronga decrees teaching Spanish at all levels of the public school. -
Bilingual Education Act...
1968 - The United States signed the Bilingual Education Act or Title VII, signed by President Jonnson on January 2, 1968. -
Funds for Bilingual Education program...
1970 - Department of Education begins to solicit funds from the United States for Bilingual Education program. -
Return Migrants...
1970-1980 - Return migrants or "Neoricans" were trained by the Puerto Rican Department of Public Instruction to teach English in Puerto Rico. -
Bilingual School Proyects...
1972 - 1976 Implanted in Puerto Rico under the government of the Popular Democratic Party bilingual projects Padre Rufo School and Pope John XXIII. -
Expantion of the bilingual Education...
1974 - Bilingual education is expanding in the United States. -
Bilingual Education Projects
1978 - The U.S. Congress authorized for bilingual education projects in Puerto Rico have the focus to learning Spanish for the better functioning of the return of students in the education system of Puerto Rico. -
Students need special services...
1979 - 1980 - Had been identified in Puerto Rico, the return 84.834 students in our schools of which 59, 810 seem to need special services. -
Governor Carlos Romero Barceló
1984 -- Bilingual education projects in Puerto Rico become part of the Department of Education of Puerto Rico under the administration of Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo. -
Spanish Only...
1991 - The Popular party approved the "Spanish Only" legislation. -
English and Spanish again...
1993 -“Spanish Only” policy is revoked and substituted by Law Number 1 a Pro Statehood Party language policy which established both English and Spanish as official languages on the island. -
English Inmersion Programs...
1997 - In 1997, While the statehood party was in power, English immersion programs also Made Their Way In to Puerto Rican schools. -
Bec- 21 Schools...
2012- Puerto Rico governor Luis Fortuño has proposed an ambitious, and what critics call far-fetched, plan to require all public schools to teach all courses in English instead of Spanish. Only 12 of the island's 1,472 schools offer an all-English curriculum of the sort envisioned by Fortuño, while 35 other schools offer some courses in English. The main idea is to have a Puerto Rican who can communicate in Spanish as well as English until 2022.
