The state used to give subsidies to Wisconsin students attending college in Minnesota. Those days will be over soon. Thanks to our Republican wheelers and dealers, saving mom and dad some money to education society’s future workers and their kids, you have to be a little richer to do that. So starts the education divide.
jsonline: For instance, Wisconsin this academic year is contributing $1,396 toward the $9,794 tuition charged to Wisconsin students attending the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Those subsidies will now end. Current Wisconsin students at Minnesota schools, as well as Wisconsin students who will go to Minnesota schools for the first time this fall, would receive the subsidies for the next five academic years. But students who start in the fall of 2012 would not be eligible for them. Wisconsin students who attend the University of Minnesota-Duluth in the future will see the biggest increase. This year, Wisconsin subsidizes those students' tuition by $2,213.
So to bottom line the out of pocket costs to parents, and loss of discretionary money they would have been spent in Wisconsin boosting our economy…
The changes will save Wisconsin about $21 million over two years.
Best move we have made, there is no reason for taxpayers to subsidize our students to go to Minnesota where they charge more for tuition. If the families don't want to spend the extra $$ to send their kids to Minnesota, they utilize our fantasic university system and save some money to boot. There is no way a Wisconsin resident student should pay less to go to Minnesota schools than a Minnesota resident student.
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