Welcome to Scott Walker's Wisconsin legacy: Trashing higher education edition

 

Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 8/15/2024

For decades, tenure has been a coveted status for professors that meant job security and academic freedom. But under former Gov. Scott Walker, tenure protections from state law were stripped in 2015. 

The Board of Regents replaced the law the following year, adding program elimination as a reason to lay off tenured faculty. That is how [outgoing chancellor Mark] Mone is justifying these layoffs.

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2023

Scott Walker's education legacy continues to wreak havoc while GOP leaders sit on their hands, silently cheering.  (10/18)

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2019

Act 10 puts rural school districts in an even deeper hole.  (9/3)

State Higher Education Executives Officers Association confirms Scott Walker's shameful higher education legacy. (4/26)

Just fine and dandy with treading water over high school graduation rates.  (1/8)

2018

Chapter 5:  Scott Walker's shameful legacy: The black-white high-school graduation gap edition.  (12/12)