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Pledge included in full in 2015-'17 budget proposal
On the 2014 campaign trail, Gov. Scott Walker promised to extend the two-year freeze he instituted on University of Wisconsin System tuition.
He pledged at least another two years of the freeze and he included language for that in his budget proposal in February 2015.
At the same time, Walker proposed creating a public authority to run the UW-System, with autonomy over tuition rates down the road.
His budget says: "Provide the public authority with control over tuition rates beginning with the 2017-18 school year, keeping tuition affordable in the short term, while allowing the public authority to plan for the future."
We rate this promise In the Works.
Our Sources
Wisconsin's Comeback Plan, Scott Walker campaign, 2014
State budget documents for 2015-17
Interview with Laurel Walker, Governor's press secretary, Feb. 9, 2015