Wisconsin’s 16 two-year technical colleges will face a steady increase in performance-based funding over the next five years if the Legislature passes Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 biennial budget this summer. Paul Gabriel, executive director of the Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association, a lobbying group for the state’s tech schools, said technical colleges are flat funded. This means there is no change in the amount of money the state will put toward the campuses in the next biennial budget. However, under the new budget, schools would receive an incrementally higher proportion of performance-based funding each year until 2020, Gabriel said....