Program Description

Responsible for directing the educational and administrative efforts of the System, through regulations, directives of public policy and the evaluation of academic and administrative processes at all levels. This process is directed by the Secretary of Education, who excercises the executive faculties inherent in his position or when it is understood that it is necessary to safeguard the harmony and the interests of the Public Education System, in accordance with the Organic Law for the Department of Public Education of Puerto Rico, Act No. 149 of July 15, 1999, as amended. All educational and administrative actions are circumscribed in the mission of the educational system, which is to guarantee a free, non-sectarian education that develops the capacity and talents of all the students in order for them to be productive, independent citizens, life long learners respectful of the law, the environment and capable of contributing to the common welfare. The main objective of this Program is to achieve the effective and agile coordination of the administrative and fiscal systems, in relation to academic goals, through systematic processes of institutional strengthening.

Public in General

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	9	9	4	4
Teachers	7	4	5	5
Other staff	16	15	11	11
Maintenance and General Services Staff	1	1	1	1
Total, Positions	33	29	21	21

Program Description

The Adult Education Program is ascribed to the Auxiliary Secretary of Educational Services to the Community of the Department of Education of Puerto Rico. Its function is to provide 16 years old to adults, who have not initiated or completed their studies, educational services that respond to their needs and interests, diversifying the offering with flexible and alternative hours that permit them to develop their academic formation. This program is composed of: Basic and Secondary Education, Conversational English, Exams Unit, Diplomas and Certifications, the Project of Alphabetization, Juvenile Institutions and the Program of Integrated Services to the Communities. Through competitive proposals, eligible qualified providers can offer services in diurnal, afternoon, nocturnal and Saturday schools of adult education. These can be located in community schools of the Department of Education and Public and Private Institutions of proven educational efficiency. Also, in grass-roots organizations of proven educational efficiency, duly accredited correctional and rehabilitation institutions and institutions of higher learning. They can also be located in facilities of public and municipal agencies, consortiums of organizations of proven efficiency with experience in andragogy and any other accredited agency that provides educational services of alphabetization up to the fourth year of high school.

Objectives

• Achieve 70% of the enrollment in the Adult Education Program, participants in extended hours and complementary services, dominate the academic subjects.

• Achieve that participants in the Adult Acquisition of English Language Skills at the Workplace and Beyond (ALS), comply with the educational gain established in the Educational Achievement Report (NRS) of the Adult Education Program.

• Incorporate the use of technology to comply with the stipulations of Act 105-220, Title II, Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Section 231, Grant and Contracts for Eligible Profider.

• Facilitate the acquisition of books and materials needed so that teachers develop the process of teaching learning, according to the standards established by the Program and to comply with the stipulations of Act 105-220, Title II, Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Section 231, Grant and Contracts for Eligible Provider.

• Create a plan to achieve a 90% retention of youths, adults and parents participating in the Adult Education Program.

• Establish a program for youths through the Auxiliary Secretary of Educational Services to the Community, that offers service to the elderly as a way of complying with the public school graduation requirement.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Literate population	890	700	600
Population served	20,672	20,672	20,672

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Young people age 16 years and over and adults who have not initiated or completed their studies and want to become alphabetized or obtain a high school diploma or its equivalent.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	96	92	45	45
Teachers	1	2	0	0
Other staff	73	67	55	55
Education and Recreational Services Professionals	27	28	27	27
Maintenance and General Services Staff	22	21	12	12
Total, Positions	219	210	139	139

Note: The number of teachers reflected in the table only includes regular personnel. Nonetheless, there are more part-time teachers contracted that do not appear in these personal numbers.

Program Description

Prepare human resources to strengthen the economic development of the country. Its philosophy is centered on the preparation of individuals who possess the occupational, technical, basic academic, ethical and employability skills that allow them to acquire a job, maintain it and progress in it to effectively contribute to the dynamic society in which we live. The progam has more than 100 vocational and technical courses in 7 programs of study. These services are offered in diurnal and evening hours, in acordance with the needs of the clientele in 557 schools with a non-occupational offer. The Vocational and Technical Programs give students the opportunity to participate in industry internships as part of the courses.

Objectives

• Strengthen the academic and occupational skills of the students who participate in the occupational and technical programs through the revision of the curriculum of each program, through a sequence of coherent courses, such as the programs of occupational and technical studies, described in section 122(c) (1) (A), of the Carl D Perkins IV Act, which assures a learning of basic subjects under the No Child Left Behind Act and in the occupational and technical courses.

• Establish a linkage between the occupational and technical programs at the secondary and post-secondary levels as described in section 122 (C) (1) (A).

• Provide students work experience and an understanding of all aspects related to this experience.

• Develop, improve or expand the use of technology in occupational and technical education.

• Increase the amount of proficient and advanced students by 70% or more, in accordance with the results of the Puerto Rican Academic Achievement Test, administered by the Department of Education.

• Increase the overall rate of retention in the system by at least 10% with greater reinforcement in the regions and educational levels which have the lowest retention rates.

• Give 100% follow-up to the academic-vocational offerings developed in the juvenile and correctional institutions, in accordance with the calendar of visits and meetings programmed by the Administration of Juvenile Institutions and Federal Educational Functional Team.

• Offer agricultural training and motivate students with vocational agricultural interests, to keep studying until they graduate from 12th grade.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	125,000	125,000	125,000

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Youths participating in the technological programs at the secondary level.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	208	245	152	152
Teachers	2,142	2,139	1,935	1,935
Other staff	45	79	44	44
Other Safety and Protection Staff	0	1	1	1
Food Services Staff	1	1	2	2
Education and Recreational Services Professionals	46	44	44	44
Maintenance and General Services Staff	178	140	68	68
Families and Community Services Staff	25	22	24	24
Total, Positions	2,645	2,671	2,270	2,270

All students who desire to participate.

Teachers, Directors and/or coordinators of schools, covered by the Federal Title I and Title IV Part B programs. All are contracted in part time basis and are shown under the Community Schools Program.

Its principal function is to design, produce, implement and evaluate the curriculum of all academic programs to attend to the needs of all the students in the educational system, promote the on going training of teachers and implement and develop innovative, special and individual projects for each academic subject. The curriculums of Spanish, English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies will be impacted with a constant integration of Fine Arts, Physical Education and Health Education of the student; as well as technology at all levels of the educational system.

Objectives

• Increase and strengthen from kindergarten until twelfth grade, the Project for Bilingual Citizen, forming students proficient both in English and in Spanish; evidenced by the increase in the time that is devoted to teaching English in schools and in the strategy of total immersion, exchanges with other states, virtual exchanges and others, that could impact the students and teachers in the use of English.

• Provide learning activities to the students that integrate technological literacy to all curriculums, to assure that 100% of students, upon finishing eighth grade, master the skills related to the use and operation of technology.

• Incorporate into the curriculum at all school levels, cooperative education which will create juvenile cooperatives through the Juvenile Cooperatives Program.

• Develop motivational activities for students that include the presentation of stories of people with similar backgrounds that have achieved success, both in schools and in messages through the use of multiple formats and media. This will be evidenced by the number and percent of activities by school.

• Review academic achievement tests so they match with what is being taught in the classrooms and match existing learning standards.

• Increase the amount of proficient and advanced students by 70% or more, in accordance with the results of the Puerto Rican Academic Achievement Tests, administered by the Department of Education.

• Provide 100% of preschool and kindergarten students, enriching experiences in the teaching and learning processes that result in the benefit of their academic achievement through constructive, humanistic and interactive integrated curriculum directed at the construction of their own social, emotional, linguistic, creative, cognitive and physical development, that permits them to integrate in a successful way, evidenced by the Progress Report.

• Transform secondary schools into specialized schools to permit students to choose specialties that interests them the most in order to motivate them to improve their academic achievement. This will be evidenced by the number of specialized secondary schools in computer sciences, fine arts, communications, biotechnology, entrepreneurism, natural sciences, social sciences, vocational sciences and others.

• Establish, in coordination with the Department of Recreation and Sports, classes in physical education, school leagues and sports schools to retain students talented in sports.

• For the 2009 to 2012 school years, the provision of educational services and those related to providing the optimum physical, emotional and educational development to the students identified in the Special Education Program from 3 to 21 years of age in the public and private schools will be assured in order to prevent them from dropping out of school.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Regular normal students	483,313	472,933*	472,933

Schools	2010	2011	2012
Elementary Schools (PK-6)	894	865	865
Intermediate Schools (7-9)	215	213	213
High Schools (10-12)	165	165	165
Post-Secondary Institutes	6	6	6
Post-Secondary (Others)	3	3	3
Secondary (7-12)	39	38	38
Second Unit (K-9)	172	169	169
All the levels	22	22	22

Customers

Students and teachers of all Community Schools

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	3,824	3,626	2,429	2,433
Teachers	33,127	31,757	28,752	31,106
Other staff	1,037	964	719	719
Other Safety and Protection Staff	156	135	111	111
Education and Recreational Services Professionals	2,611	2,358	2,443	2,443
Public Relations and Communications	2	4	9	9
Maintenance and General Services Staff	5,781	5,461	3,321	3,321
Families and Community Services Staff	2,615	2,503	2,267	2,268
Total, Positions	49,153	46,808	40,051	42,410

Program Description

Act No. 149. of July 15, 1999, as amended, known as Organic Law for the Department of Education of Puerto Rico, created the Administrative Training and Advisory Institute School. Its principal function is to train and facilitate the administrative and learning processes that promote and strengthen the good functioning of schools and districts of Puerto Rico. The efforts are directed at training, advising and supporting the Regional Directors, Superintendents, Auxiliary Superintendents and Directors of Schools.

Objectives

• Design, implement and evaluate training and retraining strategies for the development of teaching, administrative and professional personnel and members of School Councils, according to the established legal statutes and new investigations in the educational field as an essential element to elevate academic achievement of students and provide them with the necessary tools to carry out their functions.

• Guide, train and retrain 100% of the teaching, administrative and professional personnel and members of the School Councils, to comply with the functions established by law and achieve thereby, an effective and agile coordination among academic, administrative and fiscal areas of the education system.

• Offer continued training to 100% of the teaching and administrative personnel, through virtual access and in person in the utilization and integration of technologies of information and communication in the processes of teaching and learning.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Principals attended	1,523	1,482	1,482
Regional Directors attended	7	7	7
School Superintendents attended	89	29	29

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

All the Directors of Schools, Superintendents of Schools and other management personnel.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	3	4	4	4
Teachers	0	1	1	1
Maintenance and General Services Staff	1	0	0	0
Total, Positions	4	5	5	5

Objectives

• Provide and establish programs of study that provide for development of knowledge, skills and attitudes that respond to the diverse technical, scientific and management disciplines that are offered.

• Provide complementary activities to teaching that promote the integral development of the student, as well as his/her cultural enrichment.

• Offer students the opportunity to develop skills in the use of instruments and equipment; as well as learn procedures and laboratory techniques designed for the control of industrial, commercial, banking and health processes.

• Offer educational opportunities to youths and adults that are out of school or unemployed, so that they may begin or continue their studies in the various technical, scientific and managerial disciplines of the XXI Century.

• Promote the participation of the different economic sectors of the country in the improvement of the offerings, services and activities that the institution develops.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Guayama Premises	757	848	848
Manati Premises	875	907	843
Ponce Premises	755	726	726
San Juan Premises	742	865	865
Tool and die making workshop	83	80	80

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Students younger than 25 years old, high school graduates, who have taken the university admissions test; older than 25 who have not taken the test, or transfers from other universities.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	63	17	3	3
Teachers	176	107	138	138
Other staff	0	6	3	3
Other Safety and Protection Staff	3	0	0	0
Education and Recreational Services Professionals	7	3	3	3
Maintenance and General Services Staff	39	28	11	11
Families and Community Services Staff	5	3	3	3
Health Services	1	0	0	0
Information Systems	1	0	0	0
Total, Positions	295	164	161	161

Public Schools Maintenance

Program Description

Through the Joint Resolution No. 3 of August 28, 1990, as amended, the Office for the Improvement of Public Schools of Puerto Rico (OMEP) is created, and ascribed to the Department of Education, to put in place an accelerated Program for the Repair and Beautification of School Installations and the purchase of books, desks, materials and didactic equipment for the teaching process. O.M.E.P. has the following functions:

• Rehabilitation of physical installations
• Beautification of green areas
• Make capital improvements to the installations
• Offer preventive and routine maintenance
• Provide technical advice and insure compliance to environmental statutes
• Empty the septic tanks at the facilities
• Respond to episodes of vandalism or occasional damage due to inclement weather that requires immediate attention of the physical premises
• Provide technical, design and structural advice
• Pest Control

Objectives

• Provide an environment conducive to competition that reinforces a sense of ownerships of the school community to improve and maintain the infrastructure of our installations in optimum conditions, through the My School in Your Hands project and the rehabilitation of 250 schools.

• Develop and implement, in coordination with Public-Private Alliances and the Authority for the Financing of Infrastructure (AFI spanish acronym), the Program of Rehabilitation and Construction of New Schools and capital improvements to existing schools, to satisfy the needs of the school population, tending to areas of population growth and substituting inadequate and obsolete facilities.

• Increase the maintenance contracts with mayors and municipal consortiums and explore the purchase of services to community base organizations, to continue the decentralization of maintenance for services physical installations of schools.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	1,281	1,482	1,482

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Public in General

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	113	0	49	49
Teachers	0	1	1	1
Other staff	335	369	146	146
Maintenance and General Services Staff	450	423	108	108
Total, Positions	898	793	304	304

Program Description

This program develops activities directed at promoting the reduction in the incidences of violence and the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco and fire arms in our schools through the development of extracurricular activities in regular hours; as evidenced by the reports filed by personnel from different schools in the system. The main goal of this Program is prevention and education. Also, campaigns for environmental protection, beautification and ornamentation are developed, making students, parents, directors, teachers and members of the community participants of this commitment. The Program establishes collaborative links with governmental agencies and/or private institutions and will develop social awareness campaigns that allow for the development of a culture of peace in the schools. In addition, the Security and Protection Program of a minimum of 100 meters around a school installation is included.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Private Guards	3,059	3,059	3,059
School Guards	242	242	242
State Policemen	244	244	244

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

School community and public in general

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	4	3	1	1
Teachers	5	6	3	3
Other staff	248	237	222	222
Families and Community Services Staff	10	9	9	9
Total, Positions	267	255	235	235

Objectives

• Design and implement in an integrated manner 100% of the work plans, across all system levels, in coordination with the mission, vision and goals established by the Department of Education. Achieving the maximum scholastic effectiveness will be the fundamental purpose of all the work plans.

• Achieve the coordinated functioning of data bases, that will provide statistics on student achievement and retention, trainings and available resources, among others, in order to conduct in an effective manner the decision-making processes related to academic and administrative affairs of the different levels of the system.

• Facilitate the use of an agile on line disclosure system with the results of academic processes and projects, as well as a feedback system of retro-communication to receive information on the satisfaction level of the communities in relation to the quality of the educational action effort.

• Name 99.5% of teachers before the beginning of the school year.

• Continue to implement technology to provide transparency and minimize the administrative load at all levels, and modernize the administrative practices.

• Expand students knowledge boundaries through total access to technology.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Directors with access to the administrative network	1,518	1,482	1,482
E-rate ready schools	1,518	1,482	1,482
Schools with internet access	1,518	1,482	1,482

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Public in General

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	419	437	285	285
Teachers	23	27	30	30
Other staff	392	477	338	338
Public Relations and Communications	83	74	62	62
Maintenance and General Services Staff	71	74	54	54
Families and Community Services Staff	5	0	0	0
Total, Positions	993	1,089	769	769

Program Description

Provides food service to students in order to promote the development of all the participants in the nutrition programs. It channels available resources in a way that the participants can enjoy a complementary food service. The program is composed of the State Agency and the School Food Authority.

It is also responsible for the administration of the following seven services: school breakfast, school lunch, summer food, food for the care of children and adults, federal distribution of donated food, special milk for children and education in nutrition and training.

The employees of school dinnig rooms are responsible for offering a light snack to students and parents participating in the extended hours Open School Program.

• Increase the number of participants in the nutrition programs by 1% in breakfast and lunch, 3% in the Lunch Program for Children and Adults and 8% in the Summer Food Program.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Breakfasts served	22,106,560	22,769,757	22,769,757
Breakfasts, lunches, and snacks served in the summer program	5,546,186	5,712,572	5,712,572
Lunches served	60,543,908	60,360,225	60,360,225
Snacks served	3,502,247	3,607,314	3,607,314

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

All students of the public education system and some participants of private institutions.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	349	277	162	162
Other staff	307	340	183	183
Food Services Staff	7,240	6,591	6,488	6,488
Maintenance and General Services Staff	311	297	196	196
Total, Positions	8,207	7,505	7,029	7,029

Objectives

• Supply 100% of didactic, informative and cultural material and for the general operation of the agency, needed both the educational as well as the administrative processes.

• Print documents, forms and publications requested by other agencies of the Government of Puerto Rico in an agile and efficient manner and at the least possible cost.

• The data illustrates the production of materials from the Printing Services of the Department of Education.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Paperbacks	328,378	328,378	328,378
Printed material on school performance	2,012,184	2,012,184	2,012,184
Promotional brochures	1,055,953	1,055,953	1,055,953

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

The principal client is Department of Education itself, although services are offered to other agencies of the government that solicit them. In the last two years, an increase in requests from other agencies has been registered. The Office of Procurement for Women, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, State Office of Historic Conservation, Department of Treasury, Department of the Family, Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, State Office for the Management of Emergencies and Disaster Administration, Administration of Mental Health Services and Against Addiction, Civil Rights Commission, among others.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	7	6	3	3
Other staff	39	36	25	25
Maintenance and General Services Staff	5	5	3	3
Total, Positions	51	47	31	31

Program Description

Provides educational opportunities to children and youths with handicaps, Act No. 51 of June 7, 1996 of Puerto Rico, as amended, known as Act of Integral Educational Services for People with handicaps as well as Federal Law, Public Act 105-17 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) require that efforts are made to locate children and youths with special education services needs. At the same time, the right of every child and youth with a disability between 3 and 21 years of age to receive a free and appropriate public education is established.

The Department of Education, as well as other leading agencies under Act No. 51 supra, have the responsibility to establish strategies to locate and register participants in order to fulfill the needs of these children and youths. At the same time, they establish mechanisms and procedures to divulge the criteria of eligibility, availability of services and ways of accessing the same.

Law No. 51 of June 7, 1996, confers to the Associate Secretary of Special Education (S.A.E.E. spanish acronym) the necessary autonomy to establish structures and administrative processes that facilitate the offering of required services to persons with impediments up to 21 years of age, inclusive.

To fulfill this responsibility, we have to update and delineate annually the strategies that permit us to completely comply with the duties and responsibilities given, through state and federal legislation.

• Develop and implement a web page that facilitates the dissemination and orientation of educational and related services that the Special Education Program offers.

• Establish an uniform process of educational and related services that respond to the particular needs of the Special Education students.

• Assure the quality of educational and related services through the establishment of protocols, interdisciplinary teams and parent committees that will permit evaluation and supervision of educational and related services that are provided to the special education student.

• Develop a client service and results measurement culture.

• Coordinate and provide sporting activities to improve the level of academic performance, health, mobility, independence and quality of life to the students in the Special Education Program.

• Provide technological services to 100% of eligible students through an evaluation process.

• Help transition students, 16 years of age and older, to the Vocational Rehabilitation and the World of Work, through a process of orientation, follow-up and continuous monitoring.

• Motive students of the educational system to offer support services of to Special Education students.

• Insure the provision of educational and related services that foster optimum physical, emotional and educational development to all students identified in the Special Education Program, from 3 to 21 years of age, in public and private schools, to prevent drop-outs.

• Develop interagency projects to make employment opportunities viable to students who graduated from the Special Education Program.

• Create a voucher system to make the process of evaluation more agile, in such a way that parents choose the provider that makes the evaluations of the students.

• Design a curriculum for the students of contained classrooms directed towards concrete goals, after complying with its Special Education Program.

Statistical Data	2009	2010	2011
Clientele attended	99,680	103,310	106,500
Students in preschool services	8,000	8,185	8,430
Students benefiting from team assistance	650	700	800
Students integrated into a regular program	74,000	89,338	92,655
Students in the regular measurement program	48,789	43,642	45,795
Students with significant impediments in the program of altering measurement	2,000	1,989	2,130

The statisical data is information provided by the Agency during the budget process for the fiscal year 2011-2012.

All children and youths from 3 to 21 years of age registered with some type of disability

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	418	371	340	340
Teachers	5,088	5,127	5,144	5,144
Other staff	4,209	3,600	2,278	3,832
Food Services Staff	0	404	369	369
Maintenance and General Services Staff	19	20	20	20
Families and Community Services Staff	118	109	120	120
Total, Positions	9,852	9,631	8,271	9,825

Through the Youth Offenders Program, educational services and those related to post-secondary are offered to youth offenders and ex-offenders by the Corrections Administration. The program aims to qualitatively improve the process of reintegration into the community by means of opening the job market and the offering of general services.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	1,200	1,200	1,600
Youth Offenders Program clients served	250	250	250

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Children and youth from the elementary level to the high school level, who are high risk for dropping out of school because of their high school record. Also, youths and adults who are interested in obtaining a high school diploma and/or alphabetization through Act No. 217 of August 28, 2008 and the Alphabetization Program.

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	5	5	4	4
Other staff	1	1	0	0
Total, Positions	6	6	4	4

The adopted consolidated budget for fiscal year 2011-2012 is $3,802,938,000. The funds include $2,211,498,000 from the Joint Resolution General Fund, $16,400,000 from Special Appropiations, $20,649,000 from State Special Funds, $1,404,391,000 from Federal Funds and $150,000,000 from other sources.

Operational Expenses reflect a decrease of $131,658,000, in comparison with the assigned resources for fiscal year 2010-2011. This is due to the elimination of the non-recurring funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

The resources of the Joint Resolution of the General Fund will defray the operational expenses of operation of the Department of Education. Among these, the need to reinforce the security services that are offered to public schools; the evaluation services and therapies in the Special Education Program for about 117,900 students; to defray the cost of the Puerto Rican Tests, that must be taken by some 264,000 students, and for the Program for International Student Assessment of the tests.

It also includes various Special Appropiations to increase alternative education programs in the education system. Among these, the Saint Gabriel High School will receive $500,000 to defray part of the educational services that are offered to students with auditory limitations and $200,000 for CREARTE (spanish acronym), a workshop that offers services to promote interest in the arts and education in children and youths in economically disadvantaged communities. Also, $10,000,000 is assigned to the Alternative Education Partnership Program, in which educational, counseling and other support services are offered to some 1,126 students at risk of dropping out. The Your Values Count Program has an appropriation of $3,000,000, looking to impact over 113,000 students in 305 schools at the island wide. Three million dollars are included so that Puerto Rico participates for the first time in the tests offered by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) which will be administrated to 5,000 students of Public and Private Schools. This program measures the knowledge and skills in reading, mathematics and scientific literacy of 15 year old students.

The Special State Funds are funded through various sources, of which the Fund of Lunches Served in the Food Services Program stands out as the main contributor. This fund receives the revenues generated from lunches served to teachers and school cafeteria authorized personnel. The Technological Institute Program has a special scholarship fund geared to provide economic assistance to program participants. Finally, the Program of Printing Service generates revenues, as a result of the sale of its services, which are utilized to cover some of its operational costs.

Contributing federal programs include: tittle 1, Grants to Local Educational Agencies, Special Education grants to States, Special Educational Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities, National School Lunch Program, Summer Food Services Program for Children, Vocational Education Basic grants to States and Federal Pell grant Program. The additional funds, compared to fiscal 2011, are from available balances and will be used during fiscal year 2012.

SUMMARY OF RESOURCES BY PROGRAM

General Management and Administration

Open School

Community Schools

Ancillary Services and Technical Assistance

Food Services for Students

Department of Education printing services

Integrated Educational Services for the Handicapped

Integrated Services to Communities