In Venezuela, the Classroom Became a Luxury

The damage done to Venezuela’s education system over the past decade will take a generation to undo.

The numbers are stark

Teacher salaries have fallen below subsistence level. School dropout rates have soared. And millions of children have left the country with their families.

An education emergency is not visible in the way a blackout is. But it lasts longer.

Rebuilding schools is not optional. It is the precondition for everything else.