Daily News | Reviled in Puerto Rico, sent to prison for corruption. Can this Philly native remake herself?
about her in 2018. “She’s been a great breath of fresh air here in Puerto Rico. Of course, it’s not without resistance, as [there always is] when transformation comes along.”
She had already shut down nearly 200 schools, what she described as a necessary response to low school enrollment and a massive budget deficit. But after Maria wrecked school buildings and drove more families out of Puerto Rico, she forged ahead,She did not consult the people who would be affected by the closures. Her actions forced families and teachers to travel long distances across the island, sometimes over dangerous mountain roads, to get to their new schools.
There is at least one decision she regrets. She wishes she engaged “the impacted community” in Puerto Rico during her tenure. It’s a realization she comes to after attending a training by the Delaware ACLU that empowers formerly incarcerated people to tell their stories. She says she should’ve gone to these communities with her research-based solutions and asked them, ‘Tell me how this makes the most sense for you because you’re living it.
“And that’s enough for me because I’m not trying to be right,” she says. “I don’t wanna go back to prison. I don’t want any more problems.” She stops crying for a moment and suggests a court document that could be useful in showing how she was victimized. Then, she continues:
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