If two $1 million schools merge, Ms. Keleher said, the new $2 million school can afford computer labs that twice as many students could use.<br />“She closed this school without visiting it!” Ms. Hernández said, explaining the parents’ decision to park<br />themselves at the school’s front gates to prevent teachers, students or the principal from going inside.<br />Although Ms. Keleher has vowed “not to fire anybody,” at least 5,000 teachers work on year-to-year contracts,<br />and in order for the consolidation to result in real savings, thousands of contracts will not be renewed, he said<br />Ms. Keleher took control of the school system in January, a few months after Puerto Rico’s affairs were taken over by a governing board in New York.
