MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – A few dozen protesters showed up at a meeting of the UW Board of Regents in Madison Friday morning.
Some carried signs opposing what they called cuts, layoffs, and privatization as the result of Governor Scott Walker’s budget proposals.
He wants to slash $300 million in state funds for the UW and its 26 campuses, and allow the system to run independent of bureaucratic rules and politicians’ limits on tuition.
Senate Democratic Leader Jennifer Shilling called that autonomy plan “privatization,” and protesters followed suit with that theme, with one sign reading “Keep UW Really Public.”
Not all the protesters could get seats in the Regents’ meeting Friday. A spokesman said an overflow room was set up for people to look on. The Regents’ meeting was also being streamed live online.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
