The State School Facilities Commission has one job: to make sure Wyoming students have good schools. But the commission has inserted itself into the debate over education budget cuts—and it’s hard to believe the commissioners came up with the idea on their own.
The decision to close the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute will hurt the school’s fundraising and community engagement efforts—not to mention scientific learning on campus and throughout the state.
Abrupt closure of successful institute demonstrates another UW leadership failure Read More »
EXIT INTERVIEWS is a new series profiling talented people who are leaving Wyoming as a result of boneheaded policy decisions. This episode features a (former) UW professor and his wife, a (former) pillar of the Laramie arts community.
The board will vote next week to give itself the ability to single-handedly fire tenured faculty, cancel courses, and eliminate academic departments—big responsibilities for a group that’s proven itself incompetent.
This session that saw threats of public school funding cuts as large as $80 million a year. But as a final deal nears, only a small fraction of those cuts remain, which education advocates are scoring as a win.
Rumors of a budget deal suggest no deep cuts to public schools this year Read More »
The Senate is considering a bill that would cut roughly $15 million a year from Wyoming public schools—but it’s far better than the Senate budget proposal, which would annually cut about $80 million.
Education advocates reluctantly root for the lesser evil in the Senate Read More »
The two chambers will meet next week to negotiate a solution. At stake is whether Wyoming will take a more modern approach that saves public schools, or whether it will stubbornly keep pouring money into savings and decimate education.
The Senate’s cuts to education are apparently their way of paying for tax breaks for oil and gas companies.
Senate passes oil and gas tax break while Wyoming faces a budget crisis Read More »
Conflicting egos, draconian cuts, and a staunch refusal to raise new revenues spell disaster for Wyoming education.
The Legislature’s education funding debate is on track for public school disaster Read More »
The proposed cuts, on top of the $77 million the Legislature has already cut from public education over the past two years, would be devastating to Wyoming schools and communities.
Senate budget proposes $130 million in cuts to Wyoming schools Read More »
