Editing Operation Bootstrap (section)

=== Education ===
At the time, [[modernization theory]] was the driving force behind American program development in the [[Cold War]] era. As a result, Operation Bootstrap focused on educational development to fuel economic development in Puerto Rico. In the 1950s, education was viewed as the cornerstone of Island development and was allocated more of the Islands budget than any other public sector.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lefty|first=Lauren|date=November 2021|title="Puerto Rico Can Teach So Much": The Hemispheric and Imperial Origins of the Educational War on Poverty|journal=History of Education Quarterly|language=en|volume=61|issue=4|pages=423–448|doi=10.1017/heq.2021.44|s2cid=240357510 |issn=0018-2680|doi-access=free}}</ref> From 1932-1957 the number of students enrolled in [[vocational education]] went from 5,700 to 110,000.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Porrata|first=Oscar, E.|title=Informe Annual, 1950-1951|journal=Facultad de Pedagogia}}</ref> The rise in vocational education was designed to prepare Puerto Rican's for work in factories newly developed by the Bootstrap program.