A group of UW donors and big-wigs in Wisconsin are coming together to get lawmakers to raise tuition in the UW System. The newly formed Badgers United group includes some heavy hitters in the state, including Bud Selig. The group says it wants to convince lawmakers to end the tuition freeze at the University of Wisconsin. School leaders say that freeze is making it tough for them to attract top talent to the school. Lawmakers have said the tuition freeze is needed to help Wisconsin students be able to afford the University of Wisconsin.
TEACHING LOAN PROGRAM GETTING CLOSER LOOK
There’s some support at the Capitol in Madison to expand a teaching loan program that is aimed at getting more minority teachers into Wisconsin classrooms. The program used to forgive loans for African American, Latino, American Indian, and some other minority teachers if they agreed to teach in Milwaukee after graduating from a Wisconsin college or university. Lawmakers tightened eligibility in 2015, and that led to a sharp drop in the number of applications.
