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2025 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign
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Updates
Education advocates organize to fight for public schools at the Legislature’s “recalibration” kickoff
Better Wyoming volunteers, public educators and advocates packed the Legislature’s first ‘recalibration’ meeting on June 17th to testify in front of the committee and tell them to use the process to fully fund public education.
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“INTERIM” SPOTLIGHT: MATERNITY CARE DESERTS
The Legislature’s Joint Labor Health Committee has historically failed to find solutions to Wyoming’s inadequate maternal healthcare. They will try again this year.
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What the *%^# is “recalibration” (and why does it matter for Wyoming’s public schools)?
You’re going to be hearing a lot about this term, “recalibration.” It’s a process that the Legislature has to go through every five years to determine how much funding our public schools need to educate students.
It’s also the process the Freedom Caucus plans to use to defund our schools to complete their plan of tearing down public education.
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Gov. Mark “King Coal” Gordon to receive $1 million annual Wyoming coal marketing budget
The program won’t be enough to impact global markets, but it will help distract state residents from the fact that there is no plan to transition Wyoming away from dependence on a dying industry.
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Wyoming Senate approves software purchase to study state ownership of federal public lands
The proposal is pushed by Ken Ivory, a longtime public land transfer advocate and lobbyist for the software company lined up to get the half-million-dollar contract.
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Four ways to cut school funding: House and Senate at odds as education budget negotiations begin
The Senate is proposing nearly $40 million less than the House for the state education budget, looking to cut funding for cost-of-living raises, transportation, discretionary funds, and compensation for National Board Certified teachers.
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