Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday night vetoed a bipartisan education bill that contained the largest nominal school funding increase in state history.
鈥淲hile I support the basic idea of education funding reform, this bill fails to address the innovations necessary to allow Alaskan students to excel,鈥 Dunleavy said in his veto statement.
The veto came just hours before a midnight deadline to veto the bill, and after days of speculation about how the governor would act on a measure that was billed as a compromise between progressive lawmakers 鈥 who sought a larger funding increase than what was eventually included in the bill 鈥 and more conservative legislators.
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