According to a lawsuit filed October 10, 2025 by the Global Village Academy Collaborative, President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas risks worsening the nation’s teacher shortage by keeping affected schools from hiring teachers from other countries. The Global Village Academy Collaborative is a public nonprofit that oversees a language immersion charter school network in Colorado and in its filing avers that it can’t afford the up to $500,000 the new policy would cost to hire world language teachers for the 2026-27 school year.
The lawsuit affirms fears from some school districts that Trump’s Sept. 19 proclamation on H-1B visas could worsen teacher shortages in their classrooms in high-need areas that include as math, science, and special education.
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