If two $1 million schools merge, Ms. Keleher said, the new $2 million school can afford computer labs that twice as many students could use.
“She closed this school without visiting it!” Ms. Hernández said, explaining the parents’ decision to park
themselves at the school’s front gates to prevent teachers, students or the principal from going inside.
Although Ms. Keleher has vowed “not to fire anybody,” at least 5,000 teachers work on year-to-year contracts,
and in order for the consolidation to result in real savings, thousands of contracts will not be renewed, he said
Ms. Keleher took control of the school system in January, a few months after Puerto Rico’s affairs were taken over by a governing board in New York.