With the mission of maintaining a highly controlled environment, the country’s public schools have today received students for the first time since the last governor, Wanda Vazquez, Decreed a ‘lockdown’ almost a year ago due to the emergency due to the pandemic Covid-19.
With groups limited to kindergarten through fourth grade, fourth year students, and the special education program, the designated secretary of the Department of Education, Elba Aponte Santos, Reported this afternoon that 2,643 students were reported to a total of 96 nurseries.
“We will continue to increase the number as the days go by,” said in a tweet the official, who had anticipated that in these first days of face-to-face classes, between 25,000 and 30,000 students could be received, although divided into two groups per campus. to limit the number of students present simultaneously.
Grateful to the entire ED team and parents on this first day of face-to-face classes. It has been a historic day for Puerto Rico. We have managed, gradually and little by little, to return to our schools. Thanks to the 1,714 teachers present in the 96 esc. which were opened. pic.twitter.com/p5VrxQvXkd
– Elba Aponte Sants (@prseceducacion) March 10, 2021
The agency also reported that about 1,714 teachers attended the classrooms, although it was not specified what percentage represents the figure of the total number of teachers called.