Thursday, February 17, 2011

Wisconsin Budget Protest: Thursday Update « Student Activism

Wisconsin Budget Protest: Thursday Update « Student Activism

Wisconsin Budget Protest: Thursday Update

The Wisconsin budget bill is moving toward a vote in the state senate this afternoon, having passed in a party-line vote in that body’s budget committee late last night.

University of Wisconsin officials are pledging to keep the system’s campuses open today in the face of a planned walkout by faculty and students.

Public schools in Madison, Wisconsin’s capital, are closed for the second straight day today as teachers stage