Bandera de puerto rico

Puerto Rico Language Policy

By Maria375

  • 1898

    1898
    After Puerto Rico was conquested by the United States , it was introduced English in the publics schools.

  • 1900

    1900
    Commissioner Brumbaugh, President Mckinley's Commisioner of Education, decided that English would be the language of instruction only in the secondary schools.

  • 1902

    1902
    The Official Language Act granted official status to both English and Spanish.

  • 1902-1904

    1902-1904
    It was an increase in the usage of English in the schools with the goal of converting it in the official language of schools in Puerto Rico.

  • 1903

    1903
    The official status of English and Spanish was revoked, when Theodore Roosevelt's Commissioner of Education re-established English as the medium of instructions in all grades.

  • 1905-1913

    1905-1913
    Thru this years Spanish was suppressed. English is used like a learning tool in all grades at the Educational System.

  • 1913

    1913
    It was introduced the English language for some courses like health and they also recommended that the students should read in Spanish.

  • 1915

    1915
    It was presented a project to make compulsory Spanish as a learning tool.

  • 1917

    1917
    Spanish was reinstated as the medium of instruction for the first four grades.

  • 1921-1930

    1921-1930
    Juan B. Huyke as Commissioner of Education put more emphasis to the use of English. Materials were publish in English.

  • 1930

    1930
    Commisioner of Education, Jose Padin, introduced a language policy which required all subjects except English to be taught in Spanish in the first grades.

  • 1934

    1934
    The language policy shifted toward assimilation when Blanton S. Winthrop, made English the language of instruction in all grades.

  • 1941

    1941
    English was re-established as the language of instruction in the secondary schools.

  • 1948

    1948
    Luis Munoz Rivera, first elected Governor of Puerto Rico, established Spanish as the language of instruction in all grades. English was to be taught for one period a day as a second language.

  • 1991

    1991
    Another language policy was the "Spanish only" legislation approved y the Popular party.

  • 1993

    1993
    Their was a law substition for Law number 1, a Pro Statehood Party language policy which established both English and Spanish as official languages on the island.

  • 1997

    1997
    n 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.”

  • 1997-1998

    1997-1998
    Dr. Pedro Rosello established an official act where English and Spanish will be considered the official language of Puerto Rico.

  • 2012

    2012
    Luis Fortuno implanted a program where all public schools should become bilingual schools by 2022.