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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS will soon be hiring H1B or J-1 workers for hard to fill teacher positions.  Since FCPS can't find qualified US citizens they are being forced to look outside the US for teachers. Some critics of expanding the H-1B program have worried embracing highly skilled foreign-born teachers would limit opportunities for their US-born peers. This isn’t true. This will help to increase temporary immigration to the US and increase diversity in local schools.  Local leaders have praised this forward thinking approach.  Only the best and brightest will be hired.

Across the country, several large school systems have recruited teachers from foreign countries in recent years. A 2009 report from the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers’ union, estimated that there were more than 19,000 foreign teachers working in U.S. schools on temporary visas in 2007. That was up from nearly 15,000 in 2002. (The figures included foreign-trained teachers using the H-1B visas or another temporary visa, called J-1.)

http://www.visapro.com/Immigration-Articles/?a=1626&z=48[/quote]

There were many Filipino teachers who took advantage of this to work in Prince George's County schools. The education systems are very similar since the Philippines was a US Colony, and English is a national language there. It wouldn't be a bad thing for FCPS. [/quote]

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