Six Months After Maria, Residents Resist Efforts to Turn Island into Privatized Bitcoin Playground
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On Monday, teachers across the island held a one-day strike to protest the plans to privatize the education system on Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosello is pushing for privately run charter schools and private school vouchers. For more, we speak with Yarimar Bonilla, an associate professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her latest piece in The Nation is titled "6 Months After Maria, Puerto Ricans Face a New Threat-Education Reform."