MPS pauses hiring new international teachers after Trump admin hikes H-1B fees to $100K

WUWM 89.7 FM ^ | 10/3/2025 | Katherine Kokal

[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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[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Twenty to thirty years of not teaching kids to read, write, and do arithmetic and there simply aren’t that many educated people around.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Somehow, my parents, myself, my family all managed to get ahead without foreigners teaching us. What the hell is a foreigner from some third world scheisse hole going to teach Americans? Nothing. They are the products of failed countries and failed societies.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

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

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Simply solution. Get rid of DEI administrator jobs in all the school districts and put them in the classrooms teaching.

[central_va]

Thank you for your posts on the slam of the h-1b scam. Keep ‘em coming!

[marcusmaximus]

Gotta get the word out.

[Fireone]

“Given that it’s Minneapolis public schools”

Nice one, but it’s clearly not Minneapolis schools.