Mariano Villaronga Toro [SEP] place of birth
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Early years.
Mariano Villaronga Toro was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on 9 November 1906. He came from well-regarded families in Ponce: the Villaronga family is best known today for the Casa Wiechers-Villaronga, a national landmark in downtown Ponce, and the Armstrong-Toro family, progenitors of Thomas Armstrong Toro, after whom a high school in Ponce is named, is best remembered for its Armstrong-Poventud Residence
Mariano Villaronga Toro
Mariano Villaronga Toro was a Puerto Rican educator and Commissioner of Public Instruction in Puerto Rico from 1946 to 1957. Under his leadership as Commissioner of Public Instruction, three major institutions that still stand today were put in place: the Department of Education Printing Press, the public radio and television educational service, and the Free School of Music system. Most importantly, during his tenure Spanish was adopted as the official language of instruction in all levels of the Puerto Rico public education system, displacing instruction in English which