Six Months After Maria, Residents Resist Efforts to Turn Island into Privatized Bitcoin Playground
March 21, 2018
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as posted by the channelOn Monday, teachers across the island held a oneday strike to protest the plans to privatize the education system on Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Roselló is pushing for privately run charter schools and private school vouchers. For more, we speak with Yarimar Bonilla, an associate professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her latest piece in The Nation is titled “6 Months After Maria, Puerto Ricans Face a New ThreatEducation Reform.”
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