MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The state Assembly’s leader says a plan to cap tuition increases for University of Wisconsin System resident undergraduates is reasonable but doesn’t change his position that system autonomy wouldn’t serve any purpose.
Gov. Scott Walker’s budget calls for maintaining a freeze on resident undergraduate tuition through mid-2017 and decoupling the system from state oversight. Critics maintain that would allow regents to raise tuition dramatically.
Walker modified his budget on Monday to cap resident undergraduate tuition increases to the rate of inflation post-freeze. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Rochester Republican, said Tuesday that the cap makes sense because parents wouldn’t have to worry about huge tuition hikes. But he says he still doesn’t support autonomy because he doubts the regents will use it to run the system more efficiently and cheaply.
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