Government officials plan to close over 280 public schools, combine resources and introduce charter schools and a private school voucher program to the island.
There's no official count of how many people lived in makeshift, informal housing but estimates put over half of the housing on the island as built informally.
Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s governor is pushing an austerity plan he hopes will turn things around in the bankrupt U.S. commonwealth. He reckons the plan would allow the bankrupt U.S. commonwealth to pay back half of the principal on its debt — which includes more than $70 billion in bond debt and $50 […]