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Experts see flaws in Scott Walker's plan for UW System performance funding


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Experts say a good system of performance-based higher education funding, which ties money to how colleges measure up in certain categories, judges universities based on a few criteria, with a focused set of goals in mind.

If you want more skilled workers, the thinking goes, give colleges funding to produce more graduates. To ensure universities are providing opportunity, reward them for graduating more low-income or minority students.

But the 2017-19 state budget Gov. Scott Walker unveiled last week lays out a much more complicated performance funding plan, experts said.

That and other aspects of the proposal, including performance categories that have led to unintended consequences when used in other states, could make it less effective...............................