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next Friday on this program.
In other state news, the UW

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system is trying to make a
deal with the state

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legislature. Under the plan
announced this week by the

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UW Board of Regents,
tuition at state public

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universities would be
frozen for the 2729

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biennium. If the state
legislature agrees to

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invest $190 million in the
Universities of Wisconsin

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system. Also part of the
deal, UW campuses would

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promise to cap tuition at
the rate of inflation for

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two years following the
tuition freeze. The Board

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of Regents also announced a
new program called

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Wisconsin Work and Learn.
It would eliminate tuition

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for in-state residents,
students whose families

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earn at or below the median
household income. In

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exchange, students would
have to commit to taking

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part in work, internship or
apprenticeship programs.

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Board of Regents President
Kyle Weatherly said these

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two proposals will make
Wisconsin public

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universities more
financially attractive to

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students.
>> Together, these

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proposals would make the
University of Wisconsin the

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most affordable in the
Midwest. They would provide

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families with greater
certainty, remove financial

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barriers for thousands of
students, and reaffirm

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Wisconsin's long standing
belief that talent and hard

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work, not financial
circumstances, should

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determine a student's
opportunity to succeed.

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>> We should note that PBS
Wisconsin is a part of

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UW-Madison. Trying to make
UW-Madison. Trying to make