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Establish that the teachers of Puerto Rico have to learn English and it will help them to be contract.
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Elementary grades will teach all classes in Spanish and English will be a special subject. High School will teach in English and Spanish will be a Special Subject.
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Laguerre Lopez make some projects to increase the use of English in schools with the idea of making it the official language of Puerto Rico schools.
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Spanish is deleted; English is used as medium of instruction at all levels of the school system.
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Introduced a bill to make the Spanish compulsory as medium of instruction.
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Was established that the Spanish were the bond of teaching in grades first through fourth and English were used in half of the subjects in the fifth grade and the other half in Spanish.
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At Commissioner Miller Age causes great controversy in the English defense and national newspapers asking for his removal. Miller finally leaves the position.
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Jay B. Huyke Commissioner put more emphasis on the use of English in all school areas.
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First to expose English as a foreign language from the educational point of view, and fought to the Spanish as the medium of instruction. Recommended Bilingual Education.
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Tried to implement a bilingual program but many public protests was not allowed.
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He ended the lengthy discussion of bilingualism decreeing the vernacular(Spanish) at all levels of the public school from school year 1949-1950.
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Both, the Department of Education with Universities, requesting funds to meet the needs of students returning from the United States and create a program to help them. This program is called “Bilingual Education” and included teaching Spanish, English maintenance and other services.
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Congress USA projects authorized bilingual education in PR have the focus to learning Spanish.
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Carlos Romero Barceló under management, bilingual education fails "Program" and transfer their "projects" to the Department of English. He signed the Bilingual Education Certification is not implemented.
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Programs are created to meet the educational needs in terms of linguistic limitations
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Bilingual education projects are again autonomous and appointing a director to run the program.
