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Walker Wins: New Budget Will Repeal University Tenure
dailycaller.com ^ | July 11, 2015 | Blake Neff

Posted on 07/11/2015 4:11:24 PM PDT by PROCON

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is poised to win a huge victory on education as the state legislature passed a budget that repeals state tenure guarantees while also slashing the budget of the University of Wisconsin.

The victory was enunciated by the acquiescence of the university, which recognized its defeat by passing a spending plan that implements Walker’s cuts. All that remains is for Walker to consummate his victory by affixing his signature to the budget.

The two-year, $73 billion budget approved Thursday makes a host of changes Walker has sought in the realm of education. Wisconsin’s school voucher program is expanded, and $250 million in funding is taken from the University of Wisconsin. That’s down from the $300 million cut Walker originally sought, but still a substantial haircut.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: budget; commoncorewalker; gope; obamatradescotty; rino; scottwalker; tenure; wisconsin
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To: PlateOfShrimp
"Squirrel Eater"??
21 posted on 07/11/2015 4:59:36 PM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

He isn’t afraid to take on sacred cows or the entrenched.

I like that!


22 posted on 07/11/2015 5:04:09 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

You didn’t read the article. The power is transferred to University REGENTS (Board of Director) who are appointed by the governor.

-—those who have already won tenure can’t have it removed without cause

its in the artitcle.. they can have it removed.

-—If a public university wanted to keep its tenure policies unchanged, how does this budget prevent them from doing so?

its in the article. In Wisconsin the tenure was in State law (the only State with it enshrined in law(. Now this power is in the hands of the Regents.

If you had heard the solid weeks of whining of the lefty professors you would understand that their ox was gored big time.


23 posted on 07/11/2015 5:06:58 PM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: rbg81

You’re right but it will take about 30 years to make a dent in their foundation! So are you willing to wait?


24 posted on 07/11/2015 5:13:42 PM PDT by Deagle (i)
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To: editor-surveyor

I think Cruz and Walker would be a great team.

Cruz for the aggressive southern conservative vote and Walker a lot less scary for the creeping rightward midwest.


25 posted on 07/11/2015 5:14:53 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: PROCON

Important notes:

The freeze on in-state tuition will put the blocks to jacking up costs on in-state students to pay for foreign students.

And tenured professors can now be canned for financial reasons, which means as long as it can be justified financially, it works. We’re not firing him because he is a radical racist who plagiarizes everything he writes. It is because of “budget uncertainty”.


26 posted on 07/11/2015 5:21:04 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: sgtyork
Since when is it a requirement to read an article before commenting on it?

OK, now I have read the article. It seems that Wisconsin will be like other states with regard to tenure. So the Board of Regents must approve tenure, and there is a longer list of pretexts for letting tenured professors go, but there still will be tenure.

In my state tenure has to be approved by the Board of Regents, but if someone has strong support from the department and department chairman, there isn't much chance that the college committee will vote "no," and the dean's, the provost's, the president's, and the Board of Regents' approvals are pretty much assured once the college committee has approved.

27 posted on 07/11/2015 5:45:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: TXnMA

Huckabee


28 posted on 07/11/2015 5:48:54 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PROCON

I love Cruz and Walker but I almost feel like it’s too late to fix this country with baby steps. Go ahead and flame away but I’m thinking maybe Trump because he wants it right now.

On the flip side I do see where Walker is able to work within his government but I’m kind of torn on all this. Maybe I’ll just wait for Karl Rove and the media to tell me who I should vote for. :-/


29 posted on 07/11/2015 6:00:55 PM PDT by Kenny (,)
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To: rbg81
And the Left is all the more outraged because the person having so much success isn’t a college graduate!m

He has 3 1/2 years at Marquette University....just not the meaningless piece of paper.

30 posted on 07/11/2015 6:20:18 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: editor-surveyor
Cruz or lose! (our last chance)

I like Cruz, but I've had my fill of first year senators.....a successful, conservative Governor is what we need.

31 posted on 07/11/2015 6:22:38 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: PROCON

bookmark


32 posted on 07/11/2015 6:37:18 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: terycarl

Understand. But to the snobs on the Left, the piece of sheepskin is everything.


33 posted on 07/11/2015 6:42:30 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: PROCON
While academics have accused Walker of sabotaging the school’s competitiveness, Walker has refused to yield, arguing that professors should be teaching more classes.

I hope Walker does push for professors to teach more classes and do less research. All those hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding will have to go somewhere and Missouri should be able to get some of it.

34 posted on 07/11/2015 6:47:38 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes this is severe problem area. I am not giving him a pass on it either. He needs to get his sh1t together properly on it.


35 posted on 07/11/2015 6:59:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

That’s not the point. The point is it’s no longer a sacred cow. It’s a paradigm shift and “hopefully” some other governors will grow a pair.


36 posted on 07/11/2015 7:29:15 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: terycarl
I am reading Ted Cruz's book. He is the only candidate that follows after the Reagan/Goldwater conservative model.

I am not done with the book yet but so far I like what I see.

37 posted on 07/11/2015 8:48:15 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: PROCON

&# Billion with a “B”? Is this a typo?


38 posted on 07/11/2015 8:54:44 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

>>In my state tenure has to be approved by the Board of Regents, but if someone has strong support from the department and department chairman, there isn’t much chance that the college committee will vote “no,” and the dean’s, the provost’s, the president’s, and the Board of Regents’ approvals are pretty much assured once the college committee has approved.<<

Yes, and that is exactly the reason for the $250 million budget cut. If they miraculously “find” the money elsewhere, it will be cut again next time around. If they can’t find the money, tenure won’t save the least productive professors.

Of course, there’s a chance that the Board will be composed of liberals and that conservatives will be the ones laid off (for “financial” reasons) but, in that event, eventually the curriculum would decay to the point that the school would suffer.

Personally, I’d cut the budget $250 million every biennial budget until free speech zones and “triggering” disappeared from the campus altogether. That’s how we’d know balance had been restored, and not before.


39 posted on 07/11/2015 8:55:47 PM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: steel_resolve

Dayspring might be the perfect person to go after Hillary. No lies need be told; just broadcast the truth about her far and wide, and in the harshest way possible.

As for the GOP primaries, I think Walker is one of the few candidates who will heed Reagan’s 11th commandment. He won’t need Dayspring until he faces Hillary, at which point Dayspring could be exceptionally effective.


40 posted on 07/11/2015 8:59:03 PM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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