A veteran Puerto Rican educator worries that her daughter, a fellow teacher at her school, will leave the island. A physical education teacher worries that the generator at his home will be stolen—without it, his daughter would have to do her homework in the dark. A school security guard says his building needs students who have fled to the U.S. mainland to return, in order for the school to remain open. A student is losing her best friend, who will soon move to Wisconsin with her family.

Those stories and more are what we found during our recent reporting visit to Puerto Rico at the end of last month. The U.S. territory’s 320,000 public school students are at the center of an increasingly contentious battle over how many schools will remain open in the wake of Hurricane Maria last year, what might replace any schools that the government is seeking to close, and even the attitude and culture inside some school buildings.

• In our latest story, for example, we highlighted a two schools in a rural area that are struggling to survive and engage their students.

• Need a captivating visual? Get a 360-degree view of one mountain road you have to take to get to a school in Utuado, and learn about what schools are facing in that rural, mountainous region while you’re at it:

• Check out the home for our latest round of Puerto Rico coverage here. We’ll be updating it again in the near future.
  
• And click here for a Twitter gallery from our reporting in Puerto Rico.
  
• Finally, if you want to look back to where schools stood right after Hurricane Maria, see our on-the-ground reporting from Puerto Rico from last October.