<p>Saturday msnbc article about a dozen math/science teachers from the Phillipines, now teaching in coastal Alabama. And we don’t need to feel guilty about “stealing” all of their good math teachers.
Lapus said the starting monthly salary for a public school teacher there <a href=“in%20the%20Phillipines”>i</a>* is about $300 a month. In Alabama, the starting salary set by state law is about 10 times more — a minimum $36,144 for a teacher with a bachelor’s degree and no experience.</p>
<p>“This is the global rule of the game now,” Lapus said in an interview in Manila.</p>
<p>He said the hiring of Filipinos for U.S. jobs is a testament to their competence and is a loss, but not a large one, to the Philippine education system, which has 500,000 public school teachers and some 30,000 new ones taking the licensing exam each year.</p>
<p>“We cannot even absorb all those who pass,” he said.
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<p>[Foreign</a> teachers easing U.S. shortage - Education - MSNBC.com ](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691720/]Foreign ”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691720/ )</p>
<p>Does Alabama have a certification process? Are they education majors or math/science majors?</p>
<p>This has already gone on in my city with Filipino nurses and with math and science teachers from India.</p>