GOP Joint Finance Committee Ends UW-System’s 8-Year Tuition Freeze

Republicans on the legislature’s joint finance committee are ending the UW-System’s tuition freeze.  That freeze had been in place for eight years. Wisconsin Democrats wanted the freeze to remain alongside an extra 192-million dollars in funding.  But the G-O-P voted to end the freeze, and only increase funding for the UW-System by eight-million dollars.  Republicans also warned the UW-System to not increase tuition too much or else the legislature would take action.