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Nonetheless, he proposed cutting $900 million from local school districts, $250 million from state universities, $500 million from programs providing low-income families healthcare, and prescription drugs for seniors, as well as $96 million from counties and municipalities.
At least 1,200 jobs will be eliminated, another 20,000 outsourced, perhaps becoming low-pay, no benefits part-time ones.
School districts and local governments plan school closures, teacher and other system layoffs, and cuts in other services. State school superintendent Tony Evers said:
"When you make unprecedented and historic cuts like these to schools, it means teachers are laid off, class sizes are larger, course offerings are reduced, extracurricular activities are cut, and (most) of what we value in our schools (will be) gone."
At the same time, in a rage to privatize, Walker plans increased funding for quasi-public/private charter schools and private school vouchers, including for religious ones, violating a core church-state separation principle.
The state university system will be hammered by 11 - 13% cuts on 14 campuses in Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Eau Claire, Oshkosh, Platteville, and others. The state's technical college system will also face $71.6 million in cuts, about 30% of its funding. Moreover, UW-Madison, the main campus serving 40,000 students, will be free to set its own tuition rates, perhaps making it more costly than others. Its Board of Trustees, mostly state-appointed corporatists, will also control wages, benefits, staffing and other policies, running the university like a business, not an institution of higher learning. Expect the same system elsewhere.
As a result, students will face stiff tuition hikes, for many putting college out of reach. For others, imposing greater than ever long-term debt bondage to attend.
A previous article discussed permanent indebtedness from America's student loan racket, accessed through the following link:
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