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The Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development (Spanish: Oficina para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Comunitario de Puerto Rico (ODSEC)) is a government agency of Puerto Rico that manages projects to improve and develop "Special Communities of Puerto Rico", (Spanish: Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico). The agency works ...
It is also the largest agency of the executive branch of Puerto Rico, with, as of 2019, an annual budget of more than $3.5 billion USD [3] and over 72,000 staff—including more than 41,000 teachers, [4] [5] and as of 2020 the department is the third-largest school district in the United States by enrollment, with over 276,413 students and 857 ...
The Council of Education of Puerto Rico —Spanish: Consejo de Educación de Puerto Rico (CEPR)— is an agency of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico and the governing body that administers public policy on education standards in Puerto Rico, as well as issuing licenses to establish and operate educational institutions in Puerto Rico. [1]
The tests are aligned with the content standards of excellence established in 2000 by the Department of Education of Puerto Rico and meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. Historically, public school students tend to perform poorly in the tests, with thirty-nine percent (39%) of public school students performing at a basic level ...
Education is compulsory in Puerto Rico between the ages of six and seventeen years. 3L.P.R.A. §391 (a). Attendance in public elementary and secondary schools is compulsory for students except for those students attending "schools established under non-governmental auspices." - Puerto Rico Constitution, Article II §5; 18 L.P.R.A. §2.
The first were the education commissioners established in 1899 after Puerto Rico was succeeded to the United States from Spain. The second were the secretaries of public instruction after the predecessor of the Department of Education —the Department of Public Instruction— was formally established by law.
C.R.O.E.M. (Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez) School; Colegio de La Milagrosa; Colegio Presbiteriano Pablo Casasus; Colegio San Benito; Dr. Pedro Perea Fajardo School; Eugenio María De Hostos School; José De Diego Superior School; PRACI Oeste (Puerto Rico Advancement College) S.E.S.O. (Southwestern Educational Society)
This list of universities and colleges in Puerto Rico includes colleges and universities in Puerto Rico that grant bachelor's degrees and/or post-graduate master's and doctorate degrees. The list does not include community colleges (alternatively called junior colleges ) that grant two-year associate's degrees .