A dangerous promise to Wisconsin's little 8th graders

Jo Egelhoff:

The Wisconsin Covenant. Kind of a spiritual sound to it, don’t you think? Come to the mountaintop, do a couple of thou shalt not’s, hit the books, and you’re set.

It’s great stuff. So Governor Doyle travels all over creation, parts the Red Sea and declares education for all.

Normally, I would hardly notice this showmanship and posturing by the governor. But this Covenant business is upsetting. And here’s why.

First of all, this program of post-secondary education for everybody is by NO means a done deal. It’s one piece of a huge budget proposal that would once again end in deficit, despite extraordinary proposed tax and fee increases. It hasn’t hardly been discussed in Joint Finance, except long enough for the Committee to say “your plan is pretty sparse – please come back when you have more details.”

So come back they did. Last Friday, JFC co-chairs Rhoades and Decker received a letter from Secretary of Administration Morgan. Here are just some of the details.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 18, 2007 12:04 AM
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