The Puerto Rico Agriculture Department and the Education Department have reached an agreement through which public school lunchrooms will serve locally harvested products when students return to the classrooms in August, the agencies announced. The contract represents some $30 million in annual purchases that will benefit some 300 farmers, News is my Business confirmed. Funding […]
The Puerto Rico Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) of the Inter-American University and the U.S. Small Business Administration, has launched a new multimedia platform, called BIZ Learning Center, for anyone who wants to learn how to establish a business in Puerto Rico, among other topics. The Puerto Rico SBTDC has created a digital […]
A study by nonprofit Excelencia in Education on university education in Puerto Rico revealed that, in the last 20 years, there has been a 40% increase in the total number of university degrees awarded, from 31,469 to 44,137, despite the fact that students do not have financial aid from scholarships fit for the rising cost […]
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