Department of Education-Puerto Rico

The Department of Education of Puerto Rico has the responsibility to ensure that all Puerto Ricans have access to relevant liberating education, comprehensive and serve him to fully develop in your life. To this end, the school must create the ideal conditions for the student to appropriate tools that society provides for its development; recognize the diversity of students and develop various alternatives to achieve develop their full potential; support the socio-emotional development of their students and allow students to find or build its own space in society.

VISION:

                    The Puerto Rican school should be an effective tool for building a just and democratic society, cultivating ethics, solidarity, and social consciousness. You must be a dynamic drive social change, able to develop explicit attitudes, skills and knowledge that prepare students competently and creatively to meet the challenges of the modern world. Education must meet the varied needs and talents of students, diversifying the offers creative alternatives to learning and assessment in both regular hours and extended hours. We recognize the importance of the development of knowledge and academic skills, in harmony with the social and emotional development of students.

MISSION:

                Ensure free and non-sectarian education, to develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge of all students to prepare them to function successfully in a globalized labor market and competently and creatively to the challenges of the modern world, independent learners Lifetime, law-abiding and the natural environment, and able to contribute to the common good.