Arizona schools finding teachers overseas

school's still out in Chicago for a tenth day striking teachers were outside Public Schools demanding smaller classes and better pay a lack of education funding is one reason why there are more than 100,000 teacher vacancies nationwide it's a huge number and as Hillary Lane reports some jobs are being filled from overseas this group of women share meals and live together to save money we have the same reasons why we're here sacrifice for the family and all our sacrifices it's all worth it they've come all the way from the Philippines to do a job fewer and fewer Americans want to do teach I heard from my friend that there's a massive hiring of teachers here in us back home Andrea Locke seen was making $400 a month here she makes nine times more she's one of eight teachers from overseas working at Magee middle school in Tucson Arizona you know this is a very big opportunity for me a very big blessing there are more than 1400 teacher vacancies in Arizona this year the state ranks 45th out of 50 when it comes to teacher salaries the average public school teacher in America makes $60,000 a year in Tucson Arizona its 42,000 so there's more vacancies than applicants the pay isn't very attractive where we finally decided that it would probably be time to look overseas dr. gabriel Trujillo is the Tucson district superintendent he oversees the hiring of international teachers how do teacher shortages affect the school district and the children so where you may have two classes of 18 or 19 if one of the classes doesn't have a highly qualified teacher due to the vacancy now we have a single class at 38 students does it seem like the job of a teacher is being outsourced yes definitely in fact I'm seeing a lot of that mark or Chaney is the president of the Tucson public educators union she helped lead a week-long teacher strike last year you've brought in these other teachers and now you filled those holes there's no reason to add more funding which is a problem for those of us that are left behind nationwide there are more than 3000 international teachers in US classrooms up 50% from 2014 the majority of those teachers come from the Philippines and we were there when another teacher arrived when you see all of these smiling faces here to greet you what were you thinking I am thinking that it's really great to be here in the United States international teachers must have at least the equivalent of a u.s. bachelor's degree and two years of teaching experience to qualify but the process is expensive for them costing eight thousand dollars in sponsorship fees alone Nora your piece is gonna raise a lot of questions Hillary thank you

Channel: CBS Evening News

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Length: 3min 6sec (186 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 30 2019