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Coming from Afar, Recruiting Filipino Teachers

[size=2]Evelyn Espina has never been to Baldwin County, or to the United States, for that matter.ia
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But this summer, Espina will be one of 16 teachers leaving her home and family in the Philippines to teach in the Baldwin County Public Schools.(UZN1Ev*lS b6uF
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Though other school systems have talked about doing so, Baldwin County is the first public school system in Alabama to send recruiters halfway around the world and hire teachers from a foreign country, officials said.
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Hiring the Filipinos is a way to be "proactive" rather than "reactive," they said. Bringing in teachers from a foreign country is a short-term fix to a long-term problem. [/size]