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1898-1900
Dr.John Eaton, Ex Commissioner of US Education and his assistant Dr. Victor Clark, establish teching all subjects in English in the public school. -
1900-1902
Commissioner Brumbaugh, President Mckinley's Commisioner of Education, decided that English would be the language of instruction only on secondary schools. -
1902
The Official Language Act granted official status to both English and Spanish. -
1903
Theodore Roosevelt's Commissioner of Education re-establish English as the medium of instruction in all grades. -
1913
Introduce Spanish to First Grade for some courses like Hygiene and Health. -
1917
Spanish was reinstated as the medium of instruction for the first four grades. -
1930
Commisioner of Education , Jose Padin, introduced a language policy which required all subject except English to be taught in Spanish in the first eight grades. -
1934
Blanton S. Winthrop, named governor by President Franklin Roosevelt, made English the language of instruction in all grades. -
1941
English was re-establishd as the language of instruction in the secondary schools. -
1948
Luis Munoz Marin, established Spanish as the language of instruction in all grades. -
1991
Popular Party approved the "Spanish Only"legislation. -
1993
A Pro Statehood Party language policy established both English and Spanish as official languages on the island and revoked and substituded the "Spanish Only"legislation. This stand to this day. -
1997
In 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.” The Escuela Elemental Bilingue de Cidra, nestled in Puerto Rico’s central mountains, is one of the eight schools remaining of 55 that took part. -
2012
Luis Fortuno, governor of Puerto Rico, opens 31 bilingual public schools and trained teachers to become Bilingual Teachers for the 21 Century.