Assembly Republicans Slash WTCS Funding
After nearly seven hours of debate, the Republican-controlled State Assembly voted along party-lines to pass their version of the 2007-09 biennial budget on Tuesday, July 10.
The proposal differs sharply from that passed by the Democrat-controlled State Senate in late June. The Senate's budget adopted Governor Doyle's pro-public education budget proposal that emerged largely intact from the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee.
In total, Assembly Republicans budget guts the technical college base funding by $14.2 million over the biennium - $7.1 million annually - and deletes every dollar of new technical college support proposed in budgets developed by the Governor and the Senate Democrats.
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The Assembly's cuts would devastate workforce and economic development in Wisconsin while severely restricting student access to the technical colleges.
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