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UW education professor: Tech colleges merger will be disaster without study, debate

A proposed merger of Wisconsin’s two-year and technical college systems will be a disaster if state officials don’t carefully study if and how to do it, argues UW-Madison professor Michael Apple. “That is what has happened elsewhere,” Apple, a professor of curriculum, instruction and educational policy, told Joy Cardin on Wisconsin Public Radio Thursday. “There are many hidden effects that appear only in the long term.”