Walker decides to balance budget on education

[JimH52]

GOP governors want higher education cuts to recoup budget shortfalls MSNBC

Now this is a guy that we want for President, huh?

 

[ScienceRocks]

What a fucking idiot!

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Good. Maybe universities will be forced to stop ripping off their students with such outrages tuition costs.

 

[JimH52]

What a fucking idiot!

Yes, Walker is, isn't he?

 

[JoeB131]

GOP governors want higher education cuts to recoup budget shortfalls MSNBC

Now this is a guy that we want for President, huh?

As I stated on the other thread, the University of Wisconsin charges students about $10,000 a year for tuition. and it STILL requires a subsidy from the State of 1.6 billion a year?

 

[Stephanie]

go pay for your own education. Go rack it up on your credit cards you know so much about budgets. You can learn more smart things like. he's a fucking idiot

or maybe you can get a job on that lowest rated station in the country, PMSnbc

we are going broke being taxed out the ass because of you people and all you care about is how money is to be cut from anything

 

[Judicial review]

Why does he use the word cut instead of improve. Just like Ryan. Bad communicator.

 

[2aguy]

GOP governors want higher education cuts to recoup budget shortfalls MSNBC

Now this is a guy that we want for President, huh?

Yes....this is a lie....he cut 150 milllion and then froze them to that level for the next year....as they sit on a billion in reserves..........

Scott Walker and Wisconsin s Starving University System National Review Online
n his recently introduced budget, Walker cuts state aid to the university by $150 million, then freezes that funding level for a second year (which is why it is often characterized as a “$300 million cut,” even though the university doesn’t really need to cut anything the second year; it simply must make do with the prior year’s allotment).

However, an important component of Walker’s budget plan is that the university system will get operational flexibility to make up for those cuts in the future. For instance, in theory, the university has the ability to set its own tuition, but the legislature rarely grants it that authority. Walker’s plan would give the system that autonomy in the future, as well as the ability to negotiate its own employee contracts and bond for its own buildings. This is similar to the operational flexibility that Virginia granted to its universities nearly a decade ago.

So while the university’s budget would go down slightly, in the short term it would have the ability to manage those cuts the way it saw fit, and in the long term it would be able to make up for them via tuition increases.

Further, a long-term look at the University of Wisconsin system shows a university that isn’t exactly emaciated. Here’s a chart that shows the two major components of university funding — state aid and tuition — since 2000. The last two years (2016 and 2017) represent Walker’s proposal....

Even with Walker’s reductions, the university’s two largest funding sources have increased by 64 percent since 2000.

he system also receives federal aid, gifts and grants, and other revenues, but these tend to have strings attached, so it’s not entirely fair for them to be counted in the university’s budget. If they were, though, the increase in revenues would be even greater.

It also didn’t particularly help UW’s case when legislators found the system had been sitting on nearly $1 billion in reserves, stashed away for a rainy day. Perhaps Walker’s budget will provoke them to pull out their umbrellas.

 

[Judicial review]

Lol.. gotta love colleges living out of their means.. they will up tuition with the state money or without it.

My personal opinion is EVERY student should start at their local community college for their 1st year then transfer. Take all general education courses there then transfer for your core classes. Universities would be forced to lower class cost.

 

[rightwinger]

Gotta love Republicans

The education party

 

[Moonglow]

GOP governors want higher education cuts to recoup budget shortfalls MSNBC

Now this is a guy that we want for President, huh?

What do you expect from a college dropout?

 

[Judicial review]

At least wisconsin tax payers are saving 150 million a year.

 

[rightwinger]

At least wisconsin tax payers are saving 150 million a year.

You could buy alot of Kirbys for that kind of money. At least four or five

 

[Judicial review]

At least wisconsin tax payers are saving 150 million a year.

You could buy alot of Kirbys for that kind of money. At least four or five

312,500 of them

 

[Judicial review]

GOP governors want higher education cuts to recoup budget shortfalls MSNBC

Now this is a guy that we want for President, huh?

What do you expect from a college dropout?

Common sense.

 

[Moonglow]

GOP governors want higher education cuts to recoup budget shortfalls MSNBC

Now this is a guy that we want for President, huh?

What do you expect from a college dropout?

Common sense.

He has neither...

 

[Judicial review]

GOP governors want higher education cuts to recoup budget shortfalls MSNBC

Now this is a guy that we want for President, huh?

What do you expect from a college dropout?

Common sense.

He has neither...

He sure does.

 

[rightwinger]

At least wisconsin tax payers are saving 150 million a year.

You could buy alot of Kirbys for that kind of money. At least four or five

312,500 of them

Only if you have a coupon

 

[Stephanie]

they need taxpayers monies so can teach your children crap such as this. PROPAGANDA at it's finest.... wake up people and good on Walker. Jindal is against common core also.

snip:
Higher Education: School worksheet says GOP thinks poor are a waste of money
posted at 5:21 pm on February 10, 2015 by Jazz Shaw

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In case you were worried about the next generation and the future of the nation, save yourself some time. All is lost.

A Wisconsin mother claims her 16-year-old son’s classroom assignment last week described Republicans as opposed to helping the poor because “it’s a waste of money.”

The woman said her son, a junior at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wisc., was asked, along with other students, to complete an assignment about different views on the political spectrum while in a U.S. government and politics class on Thursday.

The assignment listed a series of quotes and required students to identify which party affiliation best represented each statement.

The first quote read, “We should not help the poor, it’s a waste of money.”

The mother, who asked only to be identified as “Heather” to protect her son’s privacy, said he chose option “E” for “Fascist” because he “didn’t know what else could be the answer.”

When the assignment was returned, the answer was marked as incorrect and the teacher wrote in option “D” for “Conservative/Republican” instead, his mother told FoxNews.com.

So this is actually going on in a high school classroom. The one question making the headlines is dismaying enough, but if you look at the rest of the form you will find several other generalities which should be worrisome as well. The original below is from EAG News where the story was originally reported. Check out some of the quiz items.

all of it here:
Higher Education School worksheet says GOP thinks poor are a waste of money Hot Air

 

[Antares]

U of W is sitting on 2 BILLION in assets, let them use that.