The controversial education funding package House Bill 57 got the veto pen treatment on Monday, the last day the governor had to axe the $183 million annual expenditure.

The bill would have increased the Base Student Allocation funding to $700 per student and had other provisions. But the funding was the main aspect of the bill that was transmitted to Gov. Mike Dunleavy on May 1.

"Today I vetoed the education funding bill HB 57 because it lacked sufficient education policy reform necessary to improve student outcomes," Dunleavy said in a video that he released in the early afternoon.

The Legislature is likely to go into an hastily-called joint session to attempt to override the bill before the May 21 constitutional deadline for adjournment.

Earlier this session, Dunleavy vetoed another education package, House Bill 69, for similar reasons, and the House and Senate failed to override his veto.

The liberal members running the Legislature then took parts of HB 69 and shoved it into a different education bill, HB 57, to try to permanently boost education spending.

press conf. at 1 pm. veto and then send out video of him.