a dozen math/science teachers from the Phillipines in coastal Alabama

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<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.

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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</p>

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<p>Does Alabama have a certification process? Are they education majors or math/science majors?</p>

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<p>This has already gone on in my city with Filipino nurses and with math and science teachers from India.</p>