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The Department of Homeland Security announced a rule change Wednesday that will transform the lottery that decides who gets the 85,000 H-1B visas granted to for-profit companies every year.
Previously, an initial lottery granted 20,000 visas only to those holding advanced degrees granted by U.S. institutions — master’s degrees or doctorates — and then a general lottery granted 65,000 visas to all qualified applicants.
The Department of Homeland Security switched the order of these lotteries, it said in a notice of the final rule change, which will bolster the odds for highly educated foreign nationals. The change reduces the likelihood that people with just a bachelor’s degree will win in the general lottery, said Lisa Spiegel, an attorney at Duane Morris in San Francisco and head of the firm’s immigration group.
The program shift could hurt technology staffing companies, also known as outsourcers, who have a reputation for flooding the lottery with applications. Three Indian firms — Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro — often account for a majority of the H-1B applications, an analysis of government data shows.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday February 01 2019, @04:53PM (1 child)
But if you knock something to the bottom and then start judging it from there, you will get bottom results.
If the school system got funding like the private system, they would be able to vet and hire better teachers, have smaller class sizes, get the 'slower' or 'problem' kids a '''separate but equal''' (however you want to define that) education...
Equal funding might see equal results: but that is not what the rich want. They want to pay for THEIR kids PRIVATE, well funded education; they do NOT want to pay for other kids PUBLIC education, which just helps the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor and uneducated.
Funding for smaller class sizes would allow a teacher to help more and maintain control better. Disallowing 'helicopter' parents would also be a help, probably: kids should be allowed to play outside AND if they get hurt by falling off the monkey bars, there are no lawsuits (except for reasonable negligence), just good life lessons (as well as lessons in physics, muscle control, logical thinking, etc).
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 01 2019, @05:42PM
Thus judging them vs their peers.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.