What's the Price Tag for Fixing Up Puerto Rico's Schools? Try $11 Billion

Education Week: More than a year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, public schools on the island still need much more than a coat of paint.

That's according to Julia Keleher, the U.S territory's education secretary. To be precise, she put the total cost of repairing the island's 856 public schools, and bringing them up to school building standards which until recently didn't exist,  at $11 billion. For perspective, that's more than one-seventh of the U.S. Department of Education's total operating budget for this fiscal year.

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