Kansas school recruiting Filipino teachers in 2008

Representatives of a school district in Kansas will be traveling to the Philippines next month to recruit teachers for Topeka Unified School District 501. School board members approved on Thursday the trip to the Philippines to look for teachers who can provide instruction in areas where US schools are finding it increasingly difficult to fill, the Topeka Capital Journal reported on Friday. Springfield, Missouri-based HealthQuest Enterprises will finance the recruitment trip. Currently, 18 teachers from the Philippines are employed in 11 district schools in Kansas. Seven of them work as middle or high school science teachers, four as math teachers, five as special education teachers and two as elementary teachers, one of whom is certified to teach English second language learners and the other with math concentration, the report said. Of the 18 Filipino teachers, 13 had a master's degree or have completed one since being hired. - GMANews.TV