They will fight tooth and nail to hold to their power, privilege and profits.
What product does Big Education produce? We know. There are thousands upon thousands of graduates who hold useless degrees, who face mega loan-induced servitude and suffer with liberal indoctrination and brain rot.
Walker believes dumping the EAB will “benefit schools by eliminating a costly and unnecessary regulatory burden,” according to his spokeswoman, Laurel Patrick. [money will remain in the schools' pockets - to be invested where they see fit - they will decide what they teach]
Educational Approval Board: Frequently Asked Questions for Schools, Students and Consumers
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14. What does the approval process involve?
The EAB has an application form, which is used to guide the process. The process generally look like this:
school requests application materials;
school personnel meets with an EAB education consultant to review application material;
school completes and submits the application materials and fee;
the education consultant does a completeness and compliance review of the materials submitted;
an industry consultant may evaluate programs;
the education consultant prepares and sends letter of findings to the school;
if needed, the school makes corrections to meet EAB requirements and resubmits revised materials;
when the application materials meet EAB requirements, the school is approved to operate.
15. Do schools renew their approval?
Every year a school must renew its approval by sending in a renewal application. The application is due in September prior to the calendar year for which the school is renewing its approval.
16. Are there renewal fees?
The annual renewal fee has two parts:
a $500 fee due in September with the renewal application; and
a second payment which is a percentage of the school's adjusted gross annual revenues minus refunds paid to students."......"
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More Walker budge “meddling.”
Haven’t we heard farmers decrying EPA rules, regulations and paper work - burdensome oversight eating up their time and profits - telling them how to run their family farms?
Below is an example of how Walker’s beating the environmentalists and their allies in the University system, bit by bit [chipping away], and leaving the money in the farmers’ pockets.
March 7, 2015 - Farm Bureau, others question Scott Walker’s proposed farm research cuts
“Researchers and supporters of a program that helps farmers run cleaner and more efficient operations say they were “stunned” and “blindsided” by Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut a third of the project’s funding.
Discovery Farms, a UW-Extension program that dates to 2001, applies science from a “plows-on” level, evaluates and monitors efforts by state farmers to control runoff, calibrate fertilizer use and employ techniques to conserve land and water.
It has a $750,000 budget, of which $248,000 would be cut in the governor’s proposed state budget.
UW-Extension officials noted the loss affects longstanding projects and the ability of the small program to leverage crucial additional grants and funds.
“We would have a 1.2-employee reduction of staff and we would pull back some of our sampling efforts, water quality analysis and a project (set) for Rock County,” said Amber Radatz, project co-director.
The project’s programs include monitoring 20 state farms and educating thousands of farmers on conservation strategies.
“This was a big surprise to our agency partners as well as our partners in farm groups and in UW-Extension,” she said. “We never had an inkling.”
The $248,000 comes from a surcharge on farm chemical sales that would be discontinued.”................
"“Almost every institution is confused as to why we would want to do this,” Dies said. “The EAB oversight really provides some legitimacy and integrity for the sector.”
How can complaints increase if there is nobody left to complain to?
There are a lot of people graduating from these for-profit scam schools that are in the same boat. They exist just to get bodies through the door, collect tuitions and student loans, and deliver a produce a worthless degree or certificate. Anyone who honestly believes that they don't exist or that the market will sort it all out is a complete idiot. So if we can accept that some oversight of these organizations is necessary, then isn't it better that it be done at the state level rather than the federal level? And if Wisconsin is abandoning their responsibility in this then how can they prevent the feds from stepping in and doing the job for them?
This is a very short-sighted decision on the part of Governor Walker.
Typical govt over-regulation, accreditation already solves ths problem, as it des in other states.
“But Dies said his agency does not in fact cost the state money — its operations are funded by fees to the schools — and that the “vast majority” of schools do not support the agency’s demise.” ( from the article)
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Translation!
Someone pays for it! The cost is passed on to the student in the form of higher tuition.
That “Vast Majority” are the established schools who want to shut out competition.
“For-profit colleges have come under growing scrutiny in recent years, accused of aggressive, misleading marketing, selling worthless degrees and leaving students with debts they cannot pay.”
The Wisconsin EAB apparently thinks Wisconsin post-secondary students are dumb, immature, idiots and neither able nor expected to make responsible adult decisions for themselves, with or without consulting responsible adults in their lives.
This is more of the “all failures can be prevented” crowd, that thinks YOU are not responsible for the choices YOU make; SOMEONE MUST prevent you from making bad choices, you cannot be held responsible for them.
“a $500 fee due in September with the renewal application; and
a second payment which is a percentage of the school’s adjusted gross annual revenues minus refunds paid to students.”......”
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The students pay that in the form of higher tuition.