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MADISON - A new $47 million nursing school
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would not be funded in the
state budget if Assembly Democrats get their way.
Democrats voted to remove funding for
the project from the budget during a closed door meeting Wednesday
night. The full Assembly is to take up the budget on Thursday followed
by the Senate next week.
The proposed nursing school was not
requested by the UW or included in Gov. Jim Doyle's original budget.
Sen. Judy Robson, a former nurse from
Beloit, got it put in the budget around midnight on the last day of
meetings of the committee that came up with the spending plan.
A Madison Democrat, Rep. Spencer Black,
sponsored the motion adopted by Assembly members on Wednesday to
remove the item.
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