SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. – The Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved, this Tuesday, the educational reform project and awaits the signature of Governor Ricardo Rosello.

The proposal seeks to close 300 schools and create the so-called charter schools, and the Teachers’ Guild rejects this reform because it is a form of privatization of the education system through public funds.

The results of Rosello’s proposed school administration model for Puerto Rico are widely challenged in the United States, a nation where charter schools operate in 39 states, teachers recalled.

These are public schools financed by government funds and administered by private companies, and they are characterized because they are not forced to comply with the regulations demanded by the public agencies, because the administration is in the hands of the private company.