Wisconsin’s teachers union is pressuring Governor Tony Evers (D-WI) to veto a school budget agreement. This increases spending for public educational institutions and the state’s choice school system.

The Wisconsin Education Association calls on the governor to reject the bill, which cleared both chambers of the legislature on Wednesday.

Evers struck an agreement with Republicans in the state legislature to boost financing for public schools by $1 billion, but the addition of a $282 million financing raise for the state’s school choice program, as well as charter schools, infuriated the group.

Individual student voucher awards will now be increased by $1,000 and $3,000 accordingly to $9,045 for pupils in elementary and middle schools, along with $11,993 for high school learners, thanks to the financing.

Peggy Wirtz-Olsen, president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, stated this so-called financing solution only undermines their pupils. She went on to say Wisconsin continues to rely on a $7 billion budget surplus.

Wirtz-Olsen also claimed no state funding boost that maintained pace with inflation has ever been experienced by a student graduating from a public school. She then declared that WEAC requests Governor Evers veto these bills when they reach his desk.

In an address provided to FOX 6 Milwaukee, Amy Mizialko, the president of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, also slammed Evers.

She said the governor of the state responsible for public education cannot be there at the table and declare his intention to take part in the Wisconsin education hunger games.

Mizialko said Evers can’t do this at the expense of the overwhelming majority of pupils in public schools, their families, and voters. According to her, private schools should not get public funding, period.

Even though the state’s unions are opposed, Evers, who won the election with the help of the teachers unions, referred to the law as a “win for Wisconsin.”