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The Grassroots Institute
2025 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign
Check out Better Wyoming’s 2025 Grassroots Accountability Reports, which track how your own local lawmakers voted during the legislative session on important issues like healthcare, education, and taxes to find out.
Learn whether their votes represent your values on issues that impact us all.
What We’re Up To
Taking action and building community support for school mental health funding
Better Wyoming volunteers are mobilizing across the state to demand full funding for public schools as the recalibration process unfolds. From crowds packing interim meetings to dozens of letters and op-eds, Wyoming citizens are showing up, speaking out and holding the Legislature accountable to its constitutional duty to support teachers, counselors and safe schools.
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The “Recalibration” saga continues as education advocates fight for adequate public education funding
Better Wyoming volunteers are mobilizing across the state to demand full funding for public schools as the recalibration process unfolds. From crowds packing interim meetings to dozens of letters and op-eds, Wyoming citizens are showing up, speaking out and holding the Legislature accountable to its constitutional duty to support teachers, counselors and safe schools.
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The plot to ‘DOGE’ our state Health Department
Freedom Caucus lawmakers are trying to “DOGE” the Wyoming Department of Health. Better Wyoming volunteers are calling them out in local papers, making sure Wyomingites know who’s behind the cuts and what’s at stake for our communities.
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While Wyoming State Senate leadership pushes for more education cuts, a committee votes to require new computer science courses in public schools
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Amidst education funding crisis, Wyoming cities remind Legislature that they’re broke, too
A legislative committee has agreed to draft a bill that would provide $105 million to local governments for the next biennium, the same amount they received in a special appropriation from the state two years ago. How that request will be received by a Legislature that needs to find about […]
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Wyoming travel industry wants a new tourism tax so it can invest in and pay for itself
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