Gov. Scott Walker wants to tie the technical college's funding to how well it meets performance standards.
One of the provisions in Gov. Scott Walker's budget, which he'll officially unveil on Wednesday, will be changing the funding model for Wisconsin's technical colleges, including Gateway Technical College, according to a story by The Journal Times. Technical colleges receive $83.5 million in state aid and Walker wants to increase that to $88.5 million. However, beginning this year, Walker wants 10 percent of that funding would be tied to the colleges achieving their performance benchmarks and by the year 2020, all of that funding would be tied to meeting those benchmarks. The details around how the funding formula would work still need to be hammered out by the Wisconsin Technical College System. According to the story, Gateway Technical …
The public is invited to watch experts conduct demonstrations of cutting-edge technology at Gateway Technical College's expanded facility in Sturtevant.
Gov. Scott Walker will visit Sturtevant Tuesday to celebrate the grand opening of Gateway Technical College's SC Johnson integrated Manufacturing and Engineering Technology Center. Referred to as the iMet, formerly known as CATI, the addition to GTC in the Renaissance Business Park features cutting edge technology to help provide the workers needed for 21st century manufacturing. From a press release issued by Gateway: Visitors can experience Tarnowski Hall, the region’s first flexible manufacturing training lab that includes computer numerical control machining, welding, metal fabrication, automated manufacturing systems and industrial robotics in addition to classroom and apprenticeship training space. The hall is named after the late …
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Richard Head
2:43 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013
SO - where are the jobs for the people? Where are all the Corporations wanting to locate here? It seems to me that the more RUSD, Gateway and the City of Racine take, the fewer jobs there are, the more foreclosures, and the more homeless. They are greedy and are abusing their taxing authority. What will save the region is the utter collapse and bankruptcy of these taxing authorities. It's coming… more ›