Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto

The Democratic governor of Wisconsin’s use of his veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be “attention grabbing,” but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The 4-3 ruling from the court affirms the partial veto power of Wisconsin governors, which is the broadest of any state. Gov. Tony Evers in 2023 issued a partial veto that increased how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year until 2425. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.