UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - The public school system in Maryland's Prince George's County has agreed to pay $4 million to reimburse more than 1,000 foreign teachers it hired and required to pay fees the school system should have handled.
The teachers, the vast majority from the Philippines, were hired under a visa program for foreign workers. An investigation by the Department of Labor found the teachers were illegally required to pay fees that should have been covered by the school system.
The department announced the agreement with the school system Thursday. It said that the school system will also pay $100,000 in penalties and be barred for two years from hiring more foreign teachers. The school system, Maryland's second largest, said in a statement it was sorry not to be able to continue to hire foreign workers and it was "not the outcome we had hoped for."
"This decision is in the best interest of our school district," the statement said. "Now it is time for us to move forward and continue to place highly effective teachers in every classroom in order to provide our students with the necessary skills they need to be successful."
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Sounds like the BOE could have used some of its own "systems oversight".
ReplyDeleteThis sucks since I can't draw 3 months unemployment a year that my contract does not cover.
ReplyDeleteThis is the oldest way to extort money fronm the tax payers. Pretend to be paying some off shore entity some money and go on a visit there to receive you huge kickback.
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Good ole P.G. county , land of the little harlem crooks.
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