So that means, 800 x $3,800 = $3,040,000 per year of PSS budget is spent to educate students of foreign contract workers. Yet many of the parents — contract workers — only make the minimum wage of $4.05 x 2,000 hours = $8,100 PER YEAR.
How many contract workers have MORE than 1 kid in school? Who picks up the cost when the worker DOESN’T?
UNDER THEORY…THE FEDS PAY THE CNMI FOR THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH GIVING EDUCATION TO ISLANDERS OUTSIDE OF THE CNMI (PALAU, FED STATES, ETC.) BUT NOTHING IS SAID ABOUT CONTRACT WORKERS.
GREGORIO CRUZ JR.
Taotao Tano
