He's also giving the university system more autonomy over how they handle their own affairs - so university can find the savings - as we all have had to do. Everyone will be watching to see how the university swing it (cut $300M from a $7BILLION budget).
Fact: Over 50% of every state's budget goes to education. This is separate from the Federal money (again - YOUR money) spent on education.
"Higher" Education = Big Education: Where after most of the incoming freshman take a few remedial classes (reading, writing, math) they can start their re-education indoctrination.
Gov. Walker Proposes Bold Education Budget
Scott Walker's 2015-17 Budget Proposal: What You Need to Know
I would support the total withdrawal of all federal money from all higher education and the privatization of all state colleges.
U of W wanted to RAISE the tuition, and Walker locked them in, forbidding increases. The system was also hiding $600 MILLION while pleading poverty. The crime is the wasted resources from an out of control system that is largely beyond any accountability of any kind.
It takes chutzpah for salon.com to blame Walker for a problem caused by the system’s controllers and its enablers.
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Those pie charts are self-reported B.S. What other industry could get away with passing this off as factual?
let the students pay and watch tuition drop..... except for perhaps the ivy league which is detached from reality and lost its aura of being a GOOD EDUCATION....hardly anymore...and is more of a commie training camp... look at the bungholes like hilary, cherokee warren, the kennedys, and bj clintoon.... and obumbler....
“the libtard investing in education” is simply buying educator votes and propagating communism... not worth it.
Go Walker! As soon as I saw the raw headline, I knew it would have come from Salon. They are a perfect reverse barometer, if they say anything, count on it being fallacious or corrupt.
Let's use typical leftist "logic" and talking points to criticize the Salon writer:
By using the word "savage" to describe Bobby Jindal's plans for higher education spending in Louisiana, Salon writer Sean McElwee is sending a coded message that clearly implies that Jindal, a person of color, is a savage.
McElwee is just another heteronormative, racist Democrat who is using his white privilege to dehumanize people of color. The billionaire Koch-brothers-financed Salon must immediately apologize profusely for their gross misconduct in publishing such racist garbage, and must make a sizable donation to Al Sharpton's National Action Network - No Justice, No Peace.
Interestingly, increased spending has not been going into the pockets of the typical professor. Salaries of full-time faculty members are, on average, barely higher than they were in 1970. Moreover, while 45 years ago 78 percent of college and university professors were full time, today half of postsecondary faculty members are lower-paid part-time employees, meaning that the average salaries of the people who do the teaching in American higher education are actually quite a bit lower than they were in 1970.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-reason-college-tuition-costs-so-much.html?_r=0By contrast, a major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.
Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.
The rapid increase in college enrollment can be defended by intellectually respectable arguments. Even the explosion in administrative personnel is, at least in theory, defensible. On the other hand, there are no valid arguments to support the recent trend toward seven-figure salaries for high-ranking university administrators, unless one considers evidence-free assertions about “the market” to be intellectually rigorous.
What cannot be defended, however, is the claim that tuition has risen because public funding for higher education has been cut. Despite its ubiquity, this claim flies directly in the face of the facts.
Paul F. Campos is a law professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of “Don’t Go to Law School Unless"
Hehehe... HOHOHO... LOL... ROTFLMAO...
Sorry, I couldn't even make it past the headline.
When I think of Salon, I think brothel...
Fun with statistics. I want to see any agency, state, city, or district that is actually disbursing fewer dollars - that is, SPENDING LESS - on schooling at any level.
If Walker is the nominee then watch the Democrats paint him as anti-education. No degree. Cutting funding to schools. Anti-teacher. Doesn’t believe in global warming or evolution. The press will eat it up.
Someone should tell the Wisconsin legislature then. They spend about 31% - Link
Less free money for leftist loons is unequivocally a good thing.
I stopped reading at “Walker’s vicious...”