MADISON, WI - Gov. Tony Evers has been touring Wisconsin following his State of the State address last week, listening to Wisconsinites and laying out plans to fight to lower costs for working families and keep our children safe and healthy in schools. 

As Donald Trump continues to sow chaos in Washington, Gov. Evers is doing the real work to lower costs and support working families here in Wisconsin. With visits to Appleton, Oshkosh, Milwaukee and Rhinelander, Gov. Evers is listening to Wisconsinites, and together with Democrats across the state, Gov. Evers will fight to pass common sense gun safety reforms, free meals for Wisconsin students, and comprehensive mental health services in Wisconsin schools.

See more coverage from Gov. Evers’ tour below:

Appleton Post Crescent: “Governor Tony Evers visited Appleton Tuesday, stopping at Horizons Elementary School to highlight his plan to provide Wisconsin students with universal free school meals. […] ‘The data across the nation indicates that when a kid has healthy meals … they’re gonna work hard in class,’ Evers said. ‘If you have a full stomach and you’re eating good food, you’re going to do better in school. Simple as that.’ Under Evers’ $154.8 million school meals proposal, which he called ‘Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids,’ most of the proposed spending, about $147.7 million, would go toward reimbursing school districts for students participating in the federal National School Lunch and School Breakfast program. It would also prohibit schools from charging for meals or preventing students with outstanding fees from walking at graduation. The rest of the money would fund additional school breakfasts, milk programs, Farm to School initiatives, and replacement of water fountains with filtered water bottle filling stations.”

Spectrum News: “Not only did Governor Evers talk about lowering costs for working families in Wisconsin, but he also said he will prioritize making schools safer, and something he says he will make sure is in the budget this year. […] The Governor says his goal is to make it easier for working families in Wisconsin. ‘This conversation today was really trying to find ways to help local people and listen to what they’re saying.’ The governor also addressed school safety following last month’s school shooting in Madison. He emphasized during his stop in Oshkosh that secure schools will be a top priority in this year’s budget. ‘At the end of the day, we will be providing funds for schools in a significant way so that they don’t have to go to referendum every year. But certainly schools should have already and are continuing to make their buildings more safe and we’ll certainly support that too.

Fox 11: “Governor Tony Evers is now on a state tour after his state of the state address. A major talking point Evers had in Oshkosh yesterday was potential gun reform. Some measures Evers suggested universal background checks and a red flag law. Evers expects that the state will be able to make changes regarding gun laws. […] ‘We have to do some things that we know the people of Wisconsin want, and there’s a group of people, mostly republicans, that, especially with gun issues, that they’re just not going to do anything.”

WXPR: “Governor Tony Evers declared 2025 the “Year of the Kid” in his State of the State address. That message resonated with a lot of Rhinelander community leaders, whether or not they provide services directly for children. […] Governor Evers is calling for spending $300 million to provide comprehensive mental health services in schools statewide. It was another of his announcements during his State of the State address. ‘It’s not just schools. It’s about whether it’s affordable housing, whether it’s making sure that kids are safe, whether it’s about gun issues,’ said Evers. ‘We’re looking at making this a holistic way of making lives better for people in Wisconsin.’” 

NewsChannel 7: “A day after giving his seventh State of the State address, Governor Tony Evers is hitting the road to talk about it, making a stop in Rhinelander on Thursday. The governor touched on several things, including funding for K-12 education. ‘Would I love, at some point in time, to change the funding system? Yes, it’s so complex. It’s even hard to even talk about,’ Gov. Evers said. ‘What we can do in the meantime is get the money to the school districts, in a place where there’s special education or any other categorical aid, that will allow them to spend that money for kids.’”