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Gov. Nixon releases withheld education money, cites veto session outcomes

September 11, 2014 By Mike Lear

Governor Jay Nixon has released $143.6-million dollars of the money he was withholding from local schools and higher education, after the state legislature failed to overturn a number of bills Nixon said threatened state revenue.

Nixon says more releases could be coming.

Lawmakers in the veto session that ended early Thursday morning only overturned Nixon’s vetoes on a few of the ten bills he called “Friday Favors;” bills he said would cost the state $425-million annually, and would cost local governments another $351-million a year. Nixon spent much of the summer traveling the state campaigning against the bills and urging that his vetoes be sustained.

Nixon today released more than $100-million for the foundation formula for K-12 education and more than $43-million in performance funding for public colleges and universities.

“I thank members of the General Assembly for taking a closer look at these bills, listening to their constituents and standing with their schools,” write’s Nixon in a statement.

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