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After Puerto Rico was conquested by the United States , it was introduced English in the publics schools.
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Commissioner Brumbaugh, President Mckinley's Commisioner of Education, decided that English would be the language of instruction only in the secondary schools.
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The Official Language Act granted official status to both English and Spanish.
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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.
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The official status of English and Spanish was revoked, when Theodore Roosevelt's Commissioner of Education re-established English as the medium of instructions in all grades.
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Thru this years Spanish was suppressed. English is used like a learning tool in all grades at the Educational System.
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It was introduced the English language for some courses like health and they also recommended that the students should read in Spanish.
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It was presented a project to make compulsory Spanish as a learning tool.
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Spanish was reinstated as the medium of instruction for the first four grades.
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Juan B. Huyke as Commissioner of Education put more emphasis to the use of English. Materials were publish in English.
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Commisioner of Education, Jose Padin, introduced a language policy which required all subjects except English to be taught in Spanish in the first grades.
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The language policy shifted toward assimilation when Blanton S. Winthrop, made English the language of instruction in all grades.
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English was re-established as the language of instruction in the secondary schools.
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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.
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Another language policy was the "Spanish only" legislation approved y the Popular party.
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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.
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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.”
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Dr. Pedro Rosello established an official act where English and Spanish will be considered the official language of Puerto Rico.
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Luis Fortuno implanted a program where all public schools should become bilingual schools by 2022.
