"Educación pública en tiempos de crisis"

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In this op-ed, Nayda I. Rivera-Hernández, Senior Research Analyst at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), points out the need to reinvent, reevaluate, and reassign priorities and resources in times of crisis to protect children’s well-being in Puerto Rico. Rivera-Hernández elaborates on the benefit of creating the Equity and Quality Education Coalition (CECE, for its Spanish acronym), which is the most recent effort to transform public education in Puerto Rico. She also emphasizes the importance of basing programs and policies that will improve Puerto Rican children’s living conditions on reliable and accurate data. According to the 2009 KIDS COUNT Data Book, local statistics surpass negative measures of U.S. child well-being in nine out of ten key indicators, such as poverty and low birth weight. Finally, she urges the Secretary of the Department of Education and members of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives and Senate to endorse the proposals of the CECE.

This op-ed was published in El Nuevo Día and ENDI.com on Thursday, October, 29, 2009 in Spanish only.

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