Wisconsin’s public schools will have increased funding for the next four centuries thanks to a new state budget signed by Gov. Tony Evers.
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Wisconsin governors have expansive partial veto power, and Evers got creative with his use of it in this budget. He crafted the four-century school aid extension by striking a hyphen and a “20” from a reference to the 2024-25 school year. The increase of $325 per student is the highest single-year increase in revenue limits in state history.
The surprise move will ensure districts’ state-imposed limits on how much revenue they are allowed to raise will be increased by $325 per student each year until 2425, creating a permanent annual stream of new revenue for public schools and potentially curbing a key debate between Democrats and Republicans during each state budget-writing cycle.
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And public school won’t be fixed.
He also canceled 3.5 billion in tax cuts for the .1% which would have had to be made up by middle class Americans, this guys is a G
Oh thank goodness! It was scary if a country with nukes are dumb.
Great job Tony!
TONY EVERS FOR 2028 PRESIDENT
Waste of money!
Look America!!!!!!
Another politician with ZERO boundaries!
No boundaries & thinks his decision should reign supreme forever. We don't know how the world will change in the next 2 years-let alone long-term. Was this man elected for the next 400 years? NO!
400 years, grow up gov. Stupid waste of time !
So it goes up $325 per student every year? So in 10 years, it'll be $3,250 per student? That seems peculiar. i dont know if that makes sense to commit to for 400 years.
This doesn't mean anything! How well has the school board anything been doing for the last 20 years? America has some of the stupidest kids on earth. This funding is going into the pockets of people who don't care about our kids.
I knew as soon as I saw the headline this guy wasn't a Republican! Republicans like the people stupid.
Shameless corruption.
Money used to buy or remove BOOKS??
No matter how much money they spend, the test scores just keep going down.
We're not going to be here in 400 years. Wtf
God bless him! Wish all state governors were like him and not selfish and bigoted!
400 years? Hmmm 😏🤔🤣😂
Wtf public school needs to be abolished not given more money.
Funding isn't the problem, pass school choice laws and let people take their kids out of failing schools
Definitely not legal
Bravo 🙌
As if this isn't precedent for disastrous executive overreach. I'm not conservative but this is dangerously literal to the extent that any bill language can be flipped against itself.
I live in WI and you put up clickbait. Evers is the weakest governor in the country and with almost no power to actually accomplish anything. Just how it is here.
Wow, free school lunches for the next 400 years🎉
Nice hopefully they can hire transgender teachers and teach all about it , since the government loves it in the butt.we need to ban school until the government can act like a government and quit pushing stuff on people,and also if we ban school democrats cant plan there school shootings anymore
BADGER STATE looking good. 👋 👆
CONSERVATIVE LOGIC
banning books makes for better educated children
The money needs to go to activities that build children like sports, music, extra curricular stuff NOT RAINBOW CULT WOKE GARBAGE AND SEXUALIZING KIDS. If you give schools money MAKE SURE its for building kids up NOT poisoning their minds!!!!!
Great. Can’t wait to have my children less educated than I am at a much more expensive cost
a promise of 400 years from a guy who will be lucky to serve more then 4 years
Americans are the stupidest voters
Given the US government's inability to root out treason in its midst, I doubt this country will last 400 more years.
Genius!
Not that this isn't great, but 400 years is a tad over optimistic, isn't it?
4 Hun-dred years!
There was also massive upper bracket tax cuts on this bill. Evers's partial veto got rid of a majority of the amount and made it so the top two brackets get nothing.
Government helping it’s people.
The USA hasn’t even been a country for 400 years 😂 pretty ambitious to think we’ll still be around considering the trajectory of the country. Locking up political opponents, cocaine in the whitehouse, preferential treatment for insiders…. And on and on and on
Thank you Governor 💙💙💙💙💙
we just gotta get robin vos and other republicans outta here for a better WISCONSIN. Nice job, Evers!
Three words: This is ironic
This won’t make a single kid any smarter.
But it will pander to the voters, the teachers and the unions, which is exactly what it was meant to do.
Thank Great Heavens for Tony Evers!!! We need MORE governors like Tony Evers and less Abbotts and DeSantises.
Well this is silly. Climate change is supposed to wipe us all out by about checks calender–
Yesteryear.