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Here’s where the story of Indian K-12 teachers in Texas gets much bigger.

Puspa says her journey to America began with an Andhra Pradesh Non-Resident Telugu Society (APNRT) advertisement in an Indian newspaper. She was tested at APNRT’s office and APNRT worked with Acclaim on… https://t.co/Ga9t2oUm2C pic.twitter.com/cRi7Aasxrm

— Nick Plumb (@PlumbNick) September 27, 2026

Here’s where the story of Indian K-12 teachers in Texas gets much bigger.

Puspa says her journey to America began with an Andhra Pradesh Non-Resident Telugu Society (APNRT) advertisement in an Indian newspaper. She was tested at APNRT’s office and APNRT worked with Acclaim on the recruitment process that brought her to the U.S.

At the same time, APNRT was working with ITServe to help U.S. based Non-Resident Telugu owned staffing companies establish operations in Andhra Pradesh, offering discounted rent, hiring subsidies and even changes to government-contract eligibility rules.
ITServe then lobbies Congress and federal agencies on H-1B and immigration policy and in 2023 it created an FEC-registered federal PAC to participate directly in U.S. campaign finance.

Same government-linked network. Recruit Indian labor into America, while pulling American business investment and jobs back to India. It’s an extraction model running in both directions.

What exactly are we preparing our own kids for if Texas is spending taxpayer money to recruit English teachers from India while the same networks help move American business activity back to India? At some point this stops looking like a labor shortage and starts looking like a system designed to make American workers compete with the entire world for jobs in their own country.