Alaska’s U.S. Senators are pushing legislation that would waive a visa fee hike that is likely to have a dramatic impact on state education staffing. 

Last fall, the Trump administration instituted a $100,000 fee for any employers sponsoring H-1B visa applicants. That led to the Haines Borough School District losing its special education teacher, Stacey Spencer, earlier this year after her visa expired in December and the school district was unable to obtain alternate legal…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...