During yesterday’s public hearing on Special Education, Senator Lourdes Santiago had a tense verbal exchange with the Associate Secretary of Special Education of the Department of Education (DE), Eliezer Ramos, who during the his paper called for removing the mask.
The official asked for special permission before reading the paper in question, complaining that “talking too much with a mask sometimes complicates things.”
At Rams’ request, the pro-independence legislator replied: “We have to prepare, after all we will ask the boys and girls to be with the mask all day, so maybe we can make an effort, Mr. Secretary. “.
The awkward moment was captured in a video that has already circulated on social media and caused a lot of criticism against the assistant secretary of the ED, as well as many applauded the intervention of the PIP senator.
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During his presentation, Ramos pointed out that student therapy services will be compensated in the summer and August academic session. He added that families can coordinate compensatory time with their respective therapists.
In the public system, little more than 103,000 students belong to the program special education.