"Operation Agua," a crowdsourced campaign to provide safe drinking water to the people of Puerto Rico, has received $1 million in donations, with containers full of thousands of water filters reaching Puerto Rico every week and being distributed to schools and families across the island.
Many of Puerto Rico's fourth- and eighth-grade public school students are falling short in mathematics achievement, according to “The Nation's Report Card: 2013 Mathematics Assessment in Puerto Rico.”
The Puerto Rico Department of Education recently partnered with Silicon Valley-based Declara to launch a pilot project to connect secondary-level teachers on a single content-rich platform where they will develop professional learning communities, support each other in their endeavors, share best practices and success stories.
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