The Puerto Rico Department of Education announced 11 consecutive days without classes during November 2025. ^[1] The decision also reaches the people who keep the schools running. Israel Marrero, president of the SPT-SEIU union, demanded that the department not deduct vacation days from staff without their consent. ^[2] Marrero's demand points to the question the 11-day break leaves open for workers: whether days off the calendar come out of their own leave. The two facts here set the stretch and the dispute over who pays for it.