-
First Habitants and Spanish Colonizers used interperters to communicate.
-
Ex Comissioner Euton and his assitant Dr Clark estabilshes teachers must learn English!
-
Elementary Schools - all Spanish subjects and English assigned as a special subject. High School - All English subjects and Spanish assigned as a special subject.
-
During this period 540 teachers were sent to the Universities of Cornell and Harvard to learn English.
-
Spanish suppressed and English is used as a medium for teaching in all grades.
-
US Citizenship was granted. The linguistic controversy continues to be tied in with politics.
-
Mandated only English be spoken in and out of the classrooms.
-
The commissioner tries to implement a bilingual program. Public protest did not allow it.
-
English is assigned in public schools as the second language and Spanish prevails till six grade.
-
Spanish was used as the main language till the 9th grade.
-
The commissioner puts a stop to the debate of bilingual education declaring that all teachings be done in the vernacular language. This withheld to the present.
-
The commissioner declares English as a second language, considering it as foreign.
-
The Department of Education requested funds for students that traveled from PR to the US in regards to the bilingual program.
-
US Congress authorizes the program of Bilingual Education in PR.
-
Studies indicate that 84,834 traveled in and out of public schools, and from this amount 59,810 had special needs for language acquisition.
-
Till this day there still exist controversies regarding bilingual education. Just recently there has been a shift in schools to implement and promote
