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Can you help a teacher keep their job??
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Posted 4 months ago in Education
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I joined a scholarship program that places teachers in high needs schools last March. I quit my job to do the (minimally) paid training and got a job at a school. The program subsidized my grad school. This past April, I got a letter from college (that they program placed me in) saying my international degree was not equivalent to a U.S degree and that they were kicking me out of grad school. I can't keep my job without being in grad school and am facing hefty costs to remedy the situation (taking additional college credits) so I can keep my job. Can I sue the program for failing to initially assess my credentials and thus incorrectly accepting me? What kind of lawyer? Also, despite having been told in May that I was out of the program they are STILL taking money from my pay check.
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By the way I am a U.S citizen (just got my degree overseas), so it's not an immigration issue. I have since found out that my job is actually being terminated (by the program) at the end of the month, I believe as a result of their (the program's) incompetence. Answers (1)
Ronald Anthony Sarno
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Posted 3 months ago.
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I would talk immediately with an immigration lawyer. My wife who is very highly educated came to America to teach and had to take two reading courses to qualify for certification as a teacher. I believe in most of these contracts the burden is on the international student to show that overseas credits are appropriate for teaching in a US school. You can talk with an education or employee rights lawyer, but I believe you will not be able to sue or enforce the prior job offer. There are too many others with proper qualifications lined up to take the job.
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