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Wisconsin Supreme Court Restricts Evers’s Veto on $50 Million Literacy Fund

The court panel overturned Evers’s changes to a bill outlining K-12 literacy spending by upholding the Legislature’s authority over emergency funding.

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers gives the annual State of the State address, Jan. 22, 2025, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
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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.