P.G. County schools hired teachers from overseas
Staff Writer
2011-04-26
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Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) is trying to fight back at a determination by the Department of Labor (DOL) that says the school system erred in compensating teachers in its H-1B temporary foreign worker visa program.
PGCPS Superintendent William Hite, who said the county will appeal the decision, acknowledged mistakes were made, but said officials acted swiftly to correct those problems.
“In our attempt to comply with the rigorous mandates of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, the school system processed applications of our foreign national employees and required that they pay certain fees upfront,” Hite wrote in a blog. “However, once we were told by the Department of Labor that the process we were using was incorrect, we immediately began paying the fees and we reimbursed the impacted employees.”
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