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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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Wyoming Legislature introduces three anti-abortion measures, including extreme “Heartbeat bill”
The “heartbeat bill” would effectively ban abortion in Wyoming. Another would mandate a waiting period for the procedure. The third is a pointless barb in the culture wars.
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Wyoming House kills bill to create new school funding source, will instead spend state savings
The House declined to hold an introductory vote on a proposed corporate income tax that would have generated tens of millions of dollars each year for Wyoming schools.
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Wyoming legislators want to cut education funding. So why are they giving teachers raises?
The Wyoming Legislature is looking to increase education funding by $38 million so school districts can give teachers cost-of-living raises. Lawmakers aren’t doing it because they want to—they’re doing it because our state constitution demands it.
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