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Puerto Rico's House Bill 427 — Piloting AI-Assisted Conversational English in Public Schools

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 70% 40/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Puerto Rico's House Bill 427 proposes a 3-year pilot embedding AI conversational tools into public-school English teaching, backed by an Education Department AI guidance framework and recertification of 725 bilingual teachers across the system's 857 schools.

725
Teachers being recertified in bilingual education
~857
Schools in system

Details

Promoter
Puerto Rico Department of Education
Period
Bill filed 2025; House Education Commission hearing April 21, 2025; proposed 3-year pilot
Keywords
public education, K-12, English language learning, bilingual education

Context

Puerto Rico's Department of Education developed the island's first comprehensive K-12 AI policy guidance framework; House Bill 427 would create a three-year pilot integrating AI into conversational English instruction.

Activities

The bill, filed by Representative Tatiana Perez Ramirez, was reviewed at an April 21, 2025 public hearing of the House Education Commission; as initial preparation, 725 teachers were being recertified in bilingual education across a system of about 857 schools.

Conclusions

Officials from the Department of Education and Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Services raised unresolved questions at the hearing about cost, connectivity, data privacy and teacher training before any wider rollout.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
Puerto Rico Department of Education, Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Services

Conditions for success

  • Resolving cost, connectivity, data-privacy and teacher-training questions before rollout

Common failure modes

  • Officials raised unresolved feasibility questions at the public hearing

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