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Minimal changes removed in 2015-'17 budget, though Walker could return to promise in next budget

Tom Kertscher
By Tom Kertscher July 17, 2015

In addition to pledging to extend a tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin System, Gov. Scott Walker campaigned in 2014 on a promise to institute a new freeze for tuition in the state's technical college system.

We've rated as Promise Kept the governor's pledge to extend his two-year UW System tuition freeze for two more years. That extension was part of the 2015-'17 state budget that Walker signed into law in July 2015.

But the pledge to freeze technical college tuition is another story.

In February 2015, we rated that promise as In the Works -- even though Walker had backed off what he promised on the campaign trail. His state budget proposal included what news reports described as a partial freeze -- a tuition freeze only for tech school courses and programs in high-need areas.  

But even the partial freeze didn't last. The leaders of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee removed it from the budget in April 2015, well before the budget was sent to the full Legislature and Walker's desk.

Walker still has time to try and keep this promise, but for now we rate it Stalled.

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