School closures follow missing births, not a hidden plot

Falling public school enrollment tracks Puerto Rico's birth collapse and family exodus, not a secret plan.

Valeria Soto Marrero

Columnist, La Isla Que Viene

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Public school enrollment dropped 44% between 2006 and 2018 ^[1]. 65% of those closures occurred in rural areas ^[2]. There is no hidden agenda here. There is only arithmetic. No protest will fill an empty school.