L.A. Schools Recruit Teachers From Abroad

I have no problem at all with hiring teachers from abroad to fill teacher shortages in areas like math and science in inner-city schools.  There's a similar program that gives visas to foreign doctors if they practice in regions of the United States that are not well served (for example, rural North Dakota).

The Los Angeles school district is recruiting about 115 teachers from abroad because of a teacher shortage, marking the largest group of foreign hires in more than 20 years, according to a media report.
 
The teachers from the Philippines, India, Spain and Canada will teach math, science and specialized courses for students with learning disabilities. They comprise about one-seventh of new hires for the 2007-2008 school year.
 
The group is the largest that the Los Angeles Unified School District has recruited during its more than 20 years of hiring from abroad, according to a report published Monday in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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L.A. Schools Recruit Teachers From Abroad
By The Associated Press   
http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/section/associated-press/2007/08/21/06apabroad_web.h18.html

The Los Angeles school district is recruiting about 115 teachers from abroad because of a teacher shortage, marking the largest group of foreign hires in more than 20 years, according to a media report.