Meet Ingrid Cruz... a teacher at Scottlandville MS in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ingrid is among the 300 teachers in Louisiana who have been recruited from the Philippines since 2007. Their story as told in today's edition of the USA TODAY is the latest to bring attention to the practice and implications of American schools hiring Overseas-Trained Teachers (OTTs).
On September 30, the American Federation of Teachers and its state affiliate filed a complaint with the Louisiana Workforce Commission and attorney general. This filing was followed by another on October 20 with the U.S. Department of Labor alleging that recruiters kept the teachers in "virtual servitude" by holding onto their U.S. work visas unless they kept paying inflated fees, commissions and rents.
The article is entitled, "Federal complaint: Filipino teachers held in "servitude." Feedback from readers appearing at the end of the piece is also worth reading.
(Note: USA Today is a national daily newspaper. It is only second to the Wall Street Journal in terms of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States.)
1 comment:
There is another side to this story.
http://www.vdare.com/sanchez/091027_louisiana_teachers.htm
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