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Puerto Rico education secretary requests $3.04 billion for FY 2024–25, highlights teacher pay and infrastructure priorities
Summary
Department of Education Secretary Yanira Raíces asked joint House and Senate budget committees for a minimum fiscal 2024–25 general‑fund request of $3,041,510,000, citing a $423.076 million increase driven largely by payroll costs, school reconstruction and services for students with disabilities.
Secretary Yanira I. Raíces Vega told a joint session of the House and Senate budget committees on April 26 that the Department of Education is seeking a minimum general‑fund appropriation for fiscal 2024–25 of "el presupuesto mínimo solicitado por el departamento de educación ante esta asamblea legislativa es de tres mil cero cuarenta y un millón quinientos diez mil." She framed the request around four priorities: infrastructure, academic proficiency, human resources and administration, with a particular focus on stabilizing and reconstructing school buildings damaged by recent hurricanes, earthquakes and the…
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