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A public school in Naguabo, Puerto Rico in 2020 In 2016 PROMESA gave the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico control over the island's finances including the department. The board has ordered cuts to education on various occasions including for special needs education , which faces a cut of $95 million in 2021.
In October 2017, a month after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico's infrastructure, $41.2 million in federal funds was earmarked for The Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development (ODSEC) with a mandate that the funds be distributed, for infrastructure work, to municipalities with over 50,000 inhabitants. [2]
Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Infraestructura de Puerto Rico: AFI: Banking: Caño Martín Peña ENLACE Project Corporation: ENLACE: Corporación del Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña: ENLACE: Real estate: Cardiovascular Center of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Corporation: CCPRCC: Corporación del Centro Cardiovascular de Puerto ...
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico is responsible for the development and management of all matters related to labor and human resources in the government of Puerto Rico. The secretary heads the Department of Labor and Human Resources .
The first were the education commissioners established in 1899 after Puerto Rico was succeeded to the United States from Spain. The second were the secretaries of public instruction after the predecessor of the Department of Education —the Department of Public Instruction— was formally established by law.
The executive offices of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico comprise the offices ascribed directly to the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico [1] [2] and whose presiding officers are appointed directly by the Governor without the advice and consent of the Senate or any other body.
The government of Alejandro García Padilla was formed in the weeks following the 2012 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election [5] [6] and was sworn in initially in January 2013, [7] with some confirmations coming in later.
In the spring of 2024, FOMB sent two letters to the Governor of Puerto Rico and the legislature threatening to overturn a solar net energy metering law, known as Act 10. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Act 10 was unanimously passed by the legislature in 2023, and signed into law by Governor Pierluisi in January 2024, and it extended net energy metering for new ...