Recruiting teachers from the Philippines to cut down on shortages

okay ting Arizona tonight taking a unique approach to fixing our teacher shortage the solution for one local district not exactly a textbook example of recruiting only ABC 15s Angie Kelly reporting in Casa Grande tonight with the new push from administrators school districts especially in rural areas are going to great lengths to find qualified teachers looking for work and by great lengths I mean they're bringing them in from around the world please line up here some element inna Jose a science teacher Vista Grande High School says his teaching salary is the best it's been in the past decade I know how to budget my money like I know where to put my money is my wife inaho spent the first seven years of his career teaching in the Philippines his home country I'm earning five times more than I was earning back in the food means this is his third year teaching in Arizona the last before his j-1 visa expires online records show a first-year teacher at Casa Grande Union School District now makes forty one thousand dollars a year he says if he had stayed in the Philippines he probably would have never married because he wouldn't have been able to afford it you don't have the money to spend that would be a problem not only to you but for the people who are living with you principal Glenda Cole tells us a problem isn't that the prospects interview and don't take the jobs we weren't even getting the applications in the first place so that's why our former superintendent decided to go looking overseas now there are several guidelines international teachers have to meet like having a bachelor's degree inaho 'aa jokes that he likes to substitute teach during his free periods and make a few extra dollars so he can go out for his favorite American food and that money I call it steak money so when I taught my wife I can get this steak because I subbed so the budget won't be heard he would like to stay longer and get an extension on his visa but he says if he can't he will willingly go back to the Philippines when it's time in Casa Grande Angie Kaylee ABC 15 Arizona

Channel: ABC15 Arizona

Views: 45,650

Keywords: casa grande teachers, casa grande schools Philippines, Philippines teachers, teachers from the Philippines

Id: hzN57LwRoFg

Length: 1min 59sec (119 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 08 2018