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MPS pauses hiring new international teachers after Trump admin hikes H-1B fees to $100K
WUWM 89.7 FM ^ | 10/3/2025 | Katherine Kokal

Posted on 10/03/2025 12:25:49 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Milwaukee Public Schools announced in September that it would stop hiring new international teachers to help fill desperately needed empty positions.

The change comes after the Trump administration announced it is overhauling the H-1B visa program, which MPS uses to fill the jobs. The H-1B program is designed to help U.S. employers hire international applicants to work in specialized industries like tech, education and engineering. The visa is limited to about three years and can be renewed.

Among the changes is a hike in the fee for new applications to $100,000. Previously, it cost an employer around $3,000 to hire an employee from abroad.

MPS has relied on more than 200 international teachers hired each year to help fill teaching vacancies. The district has previously hired teachers from Jamaica, Colombia, Ghana, Nigeria and Spain, among many other countries.

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MPS spokesperson Stephen Davis said the district currently plans to keep working with the hundreds of international teachers already here.
1 posted on 10/03/2025 12:25:49 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Hmmmmm....I wonder what teacher’s unions have to say about American teachers now being in higher demand. Or perhaps the unions will toe their Dim party’s lines anyway.


2 posted on 10/03/2025 12:27:55 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: marcusmaximus

How can the US not have teachers?


3 posted on 10/03/2025 12:28:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Why was the government of Milwaukee hiring international teachers at all?!?


4 posted on 10/03/2025 12:29:12 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Tell It Right

The unions are communist and want to see the destruction of the country.


5 posted on 10/03/2025 12:29:46 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: marcusmaximus

Just imagine the accents that poor Milwaukee kids are being asked to decipher.


6 posted on 10/03/2025 12:32:10 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ConservativeMind

Because indentured H-1B imports took their jobs?


7 posted on 10/03/2025 12:33:09 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Especially the math students.


8 posted on 10/03/2025 12:34:37 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

So are they trying to say that Americans won’t take those jobs?


9 posted on 10/03/2025 12:40:19 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: marcusmaximus

Keep ‘em coming (the articles, I mean).


10 posted on 10/03/2025 12:41:10 PM PDT by vmpolesov
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Yep.

I couldn’t believe it when I read that Trump was looking to limit international undergrads. It’s the international grad students doubling as TAs who really make life tough (and take American seats).


11 posted on 10/03/2025 12:41:31 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ConservativeMind

When I was in college in the seventies, suddenly the American professors quit school and went into industry. Especially government related jobs that required citizenship. One told me the pay was several times his university salary. (We were working together at Honeywell, and he’d been one of my teachers in college just a year before.) The foreign teachers were hired because they were available at a fraction of the pay. They sucked because the culture is so different. The idea of an Indian or Pakistani is they don’t want you to know what they know as that knowledge is their status.


12 posted on 10/03/2025 12:43:38 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (")
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And traumatize the American students in class because none of the poor kids understand what they’re saying when foreigners are supposedly teaching.


13 posted on 10/03/2025 12:47:07 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: vmpolesov

Trying to get the word out.


14 posted on 10/03/2025 12:47:41 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Exactly.


15 posted on 10/03/2025 12:49:37 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: marcusmaximus

Pro-tip — the supply of job seekers is saturated. So if you can’t find job seekers who are already in the US, then the problem is either (1) you don’t pay enough, or (2) no one wants to work for you. Given that it’s Minneapolis public schools, I suspect it’s the latter.


16 posted on 10/03/2025 12:51:54 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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>>Why was the government of Milwaukee hiring international teachers at all?!?

Probably because few American were willing to live in Milwaukee, for minimal wages.


17 posted on 10/03/2025 1:14:48 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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With so many highly qualified teachers graduating from American colleges why is there a need for international teachers?

/sarc


18 posted on 10/03/2025 1:16:03 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: ConservativeMind

I don’t understand how any teacher could stomach the current crop of kids with their attitudes.


19 posted on 10/03/2025 1:27:50 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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A problem of long-standing in colleges with foreign graduate assistants teaching lower-level courses. My memory of a Chinese grad student teaching a required American History after 1865 course is still with me over 50 years later. I spent a long time trying to decipher his pronunciation of “manifest destiny” & “social Darwinism” in the early part of the course. I was a kid from small-town Oklahoma who had very little interaction with any foreign accent.


20 posted on 10/03/2025 1:42:23 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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