The 2025-2027 biennial state budget process is now underway! JOIN US TO TAKE ACTION!

Where we are in the Budget Process:

  • The Department of Public Instruction has submitted their budget request to Gov. Evers in fall of 2024.
  • Gov. Evers has held listening sessions and is now reviewing agency requests and public comment. He is scheduled to present his budget address on Feb. 18, 2025. <– WE ARE HERE
  • The Committee on Joint Finance (JFC) will then hold public hearings around the state (usually in March and April), and collect public comment electronically as well before convening to approve or modify the Governor’s budget proposal. In past sessions, the JFC has rejected the Governor’s budget entirely and opted to draft their own budget using the prior year budget as a base.
  • Joint Finance will present their budget to both houses of the state legislature for modification and approval.
  • The legislature’s budget will move to the Governor in early June to be vetoed (in full or partially) and/or signed into law.

SAVE THE DATE: Statewide Day of Action is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 28 (last day of Public Schools Week). Join us at the State Capitol at noon on 2/28! Bring referenda yard signs from the past or current referenda to help us connect the dots and demand adequate state funding for our public schools!

SIGN THE PETITION: Call on Gov. Evers to put forward a budget that closes the funding gap for Wisconsin students and ends funding discrimination for students with disabilities:

See our archived budget action pages from previous cycles: 2023-25; 2021-23; 2019-21; 2017-19.

On July 5, Governor Evers signed the 2023-25 State Budget. See Governor Evers’ press release on the budget here, and click here for his full veto message.

Read a joint statement in reaction to the budget’s passage and the governor’s vetoes from Wisconsin Public Education Network Executive Director Heather DuBois Bourenane and Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools President Sandy Whisler below.

Gap-Widening Budget Deserves Failing Grade. Wisconsin Students Deserve Better: Statement on Signing of 2023-25 State Budget

We tracked the public’s priorities on the state budget. Fair and equitable increases to public school funding were the number one priority among Wisconsinites.

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See our real-time testimony tracking spreadsheet here.