This speaks volumes that you are not a leader but a follower and that your fight in defending self-governance is nothing but a joke. As the leader of our homeland why would you care about how the rest of the insular areas spend their educational stimulus grant or who controls it for that matter?
Such a letter to the president of the United States at a time when you are suing the federal government is somewhat ridiculous. This is blatantly admitting incompetence that truly our own government can’t handle the accountability and responsibility over federal funds, which completely contradicts your lawsuit defending our rights to self-governance.
If the Department of Education has no accountability or responsibility over federal funds, then we would all be in deep trouble and both local and federal agents would be storming our Public School System and charging everyone with a crime. But to date we have not heard of any such incident.
Most of the complaints we’ve heard from teachers, students, administrators and the community are about the unjustified reprogramming of our children’s educational funding by a governor that uses and abuses his executive authority then turns around and states that his signature was forged.
This is serious issue concerning the much needed funding for our Public School System — something our government does not have. Therefore we believe every effort to obtain the stabilization funds must be prioritized. Every elected official in our homeland made “EDUCATION” a top priority in their platforms, including the Better Times camp.
GREGORIO CRUZ JR.
Taotao Tano
