PSS “established a recruitment team this past school year to address the need of the classroom teaching personnel in our regular education and special education programs,” her e-mail to the Variety stated.
The salaries of the teachers will be federally funded, she added in an interview.
Sablan said the recruitment team is composed of school principals, the human resource director and special education personnel.
Fifty-two of the new teachers are from off-island while 36 reside in the CNMI.
Sablan said they also signed the contracts of two speech language pathologists, one occupational therapist and one educational psychologist.
Sablan earlier introduced to the Variety a new teacher who will teach arts at Saipan Southern High School.
The new teacher was recruited by former Tinian High School principal Florine Hofschneider, Sablan said.
But Sablan and PSS human resources director Charley Kenty have yet to respond to Variety’s questions regarding Hofschneider’s status with the school system.
Kenty earlier confirmed that Hofschneider was sent by PSS to recruit teachers in the U.S.
PSS said 888 teachers in its elementary and secondary schools handled close to 11,000 students in the last school year.
