Prince George’s County (Md.) district must give back pay to teachers recruited from foreign countries

From The Washington Post: U.S. Labor Department officials have ruled that the Prince George’s County (Md.) district shortchanged more than 1,000 teachers recruited from foreign countries and ordered the district to pay $5.9 million in back wages and penalties. School officials recruited the foreign instructors for classes such as math and science that were hard to fill but then required that the teachers cover thousands of dollars in expenses related to getting temporary work visas — expenses that, Labor Department officials said, should have been covered by the system