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Tech system head grilled on costs

Taxpayer rage about technical college costs boiled over as state legislators grilled the president of the Wisconsin Technical College System at the State Capitol on Thursday.

“There is a horrific outcry in the western part of the state,” said Kitty Rhoades, R-Hudson, co-chair of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee.

She told WTCS President Dan Clancy that the intensity of complaints about property taxes that support the technical colleges spiked after a state audit found that many technical college instructors are paid more than professors at state universities in the same areas of Wisconsin.