Walker’s Workforce Czar - destroying education in Wisconsin
Walker's Workforce Czar seems to think that business can't thrive in a state that has educated citizens.
"Major changes could be in store for Wisconsin’s public education system if Tim Sullivan, former CEO of Bucyrus International, Inc. and Scott Walker’s Workforce Development czar gets his way. On Tuesday he presented a report entitled, “The Road Ahead: Restoring Wisconsin’s Workforce Development” to a joint meeting of the Career and Workforce Development Council and the Governor’s Workforce Investment Council.
The 126-page report includes fourteen recommendations for increasing and coordinating resources for training children and unemployed workers to meet the needs of manufacturing businesses in Wisconsin. Half of those are focused on Wisconsin’s public K-12 and higher education systems.
The boldest of these is a recommendation to overhaul how schools are funded. Sullivan is promoting Performance-Based Funding as a way to “create the right atmosphere for (public education leaders) to make the right decisions.” What Sullivan considers the “right decisions” involve cutting general education classes from technical colleges, tailoring curriculum at all levels to the needs of local manufacturing businesses, and ensuring that no research and development activities are conducted at public institutions unless they have commercial potential...
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...Another recommendation is an increase in tuition for students at public colleges and universities who have already completed one degree. Sullivan had this to say about the proposal: “I don’t want to subsidize a second degree because a person made the wrong choice for their first degree. You can’t ask the taxpayer to pay for a do-over. Someone’s got to step up and use the stick so people rise up to reality.”
Read the excellent article here:
http://www.progressive.org/walker-workforce-czar-wants-to-make-it-more-expensive-to-get-a-second-degree
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