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Pedro Pierluisi, the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States Congress, is asking for more federal funding for Puerto Rican schools in an effort to make the younger generations bilingual. Spanish and English are the official languages of Puerto Rico but only 85 percent of the population says they only have basic knowledge of English.

The hope is that with this measure, students will be able to preform proficiently in both Spanish and English upon graduation. In addition, public school students will be afforded the same opportunities of private school students.

Yolanda Rivera, director of the Linguistics Program at the University of Puerto Rico, believes that there should be the opportunity of free choice language learning, not dictated by political interests.

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