Overview
- A unanimous June 25 ruling invalidated Gov. Tony Evers’s partial veto on a Republican bill that created a spending framework for early literacy coaching and curriculum grants.
- Justices unanimously decided that lawmakers may deposit the $50 million designated for new reading programs into an emergency fund managed by the Legislature’s budget committee.
- The decision follows an April ruling that had upheld Evers’s 400-year school funding veto and continues a broader power struggle over the governor’s broad veto authority.
- Evers called the ruling “unconscionable” and urged legislators to release the literacy funds to the Department of Public Instruction.
- Republican budget committee co-chairs have pledged to free the funds before they revert to the state’s general fund at the end of the month.