….For more than a decade, the Wisconsin Republican Party has pursued an anti-education campaign, starving one of the best public school systems in the country through revenue caps and making the great University of Wisconsin dead last among its peers in faculty salaries.
The latter has resulted in a tripling of outside offers to top UW faculty over the past three years and a halving of retention rates. As many of the state’s top researchers and intellectual entrepreneurs leave Madison, the UW, the city and the state will be much poorer.