Eliminating a cap on teacher raises, creating domestic partner benefits for state workers and allowing University of Wisconsin faculty to collectively bargain were all taken out of Gov. Jim Doyle’s budget proposal under an agreement announced Friday.The 48 policy items removed can be passed as separate bills, but that makes their path to becoming law much more difficult.
The agreement on which items to take out of the two-year spending plan announced by co-chairs of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee clears the path for that panel to begin taking votes on the proposal starting next week.