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Costa Rica goes back to school

Alberto Font
By Alberto Font
students in San José
Alberto Font/The Tico Times

Fifth grade student José Julián Morales is among the nearly 1 million students across Costa Rica who are hitting the books again at the start of the 2015 school year on Monday. Morales, a student at the Buenaventura Corrales School in downtown San José is accompanied by his mother, Maylin Bolaños.

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