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 »
The Wyoming State Senate wants education funding cuts so big that lawmakers know the Supreme Court will reject them. So, two senators are trying to change the constitution to make their cuts to public schools legal.
Amendments to defund Wyoming schools pass Senate committee Read More »
Wyoming is one of the few states that doesn’t fund early childhood education. A proposed bill won’t change that—but it at least moves us in the right direction.
