P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1006a
(1) Public policy. — The Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico hereby commits to ensure for present and future generations the musical heritage that the history of the creation of the Ernesto Ramos Antonini Free Music School of San Juan and its contribution to our musical culture represents for our people. This requires an integrative effort in order to make known what the Ernesto Ramos Antonini Free Music School of San Juan, National Patrimony, represents for our Island. The Government shall ensure the present facilities and other facilities of similar or greater capacity and quality for its ongoing musical and programmatic development. This section seeks to establish the functions of this institution and give it the standing and place it deserves within Puerto Rican society, for its adequate evolution, addressing present and future musical needs of our Puerto Rico.
(2) Duties and functions. — The Ernesto Ramos Antonini Free Music School of San Juan, National Patrimony of Puerto Rico, shall have the following functions and duties:
(a) Develop and maintain the academic and musical services of the School available to students with proven talent for music.
(b) Carry out efforts to locate students with talent for music residing in San Juan and its nearby areas for them to participate in the musical auditions required for the selection of the students of the School.
(c) Serve as a model to all other free music schools in Puerto Rico as to the development of the curriculum, administrative and teaching structure, kinds of services rendered, and academic and musical program that comply with the admission requirements of said schools.
(d) Establish adequate coordination between any facilities existing in Puerto Rico, which in one way or another, offer musical services, whether public or private, including Commonwealth, municipal or specialized music schools.
(e) Make public said academic and musical services in Puerto Rico and abroad.
(f) Develop and render academic and musical services according to the most recent developments in this discipline, with the most modern technological advances, with the cooperation and collaboration of parents, faculty, private companies, government agencies and the general community, so as to reinforce an effective and ample participation in education.
(g) Actively participate in every project directed to establishing and developing a challenging academic-musical program that responds to the particular and changing needs of students, thus obtaining an academically integrative music degree.
(h) Develop and maintain collaboration with parents in order to help students to develop a positive vision of the future and acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that are necessary to participate productively and successfully in an ever-changing world where the sensibility cultivated through music shall be fundamental in their formation as good Puerto Rican citizens.
(i) Upkeep an Academically Integrative Music Degree conferred by the Department of Education, which compels the institution to maintain academic and musical excellence, by preventing students who fail in music from graduating, thus guaranteeing musical and educational excellence.
History —Aug. 6, 2008, No. 184, §§ 2, 3.