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In this special episode, Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder joins us to talk about the biggest issues facing education in our state. From major court battles over school funding and education choice to the state's push for stronger career and technical training, Superintendent Degenfelder shares her perspective on where ...



 

 



In this episode of Eye on the Issues, we sit down with Jenny Schucker—founder of Academy of the Winds, a Montessori school in Lander—to unpack the fallout from the recent judicial halt on Wyoming's Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). Jenny shares how the ESA freeze has impacted her school's enrollment and budget, and more importantly, the families l...



 

 



On this info PACKED episode of Liberty Talk, hosts Mandy and Cassie are joined by one of America's leading authorities on education choice. Recently announced as one of Forbe's 30 under 30, he is the one and only Corey DeAngelis. With a strong belief in funding students, not institutions, he has all the information you are looking for on why. He al...

 

 



Despite the clear cut law that names of government servants are public records, Superintendent Jillian Balow thinks she is above the law. School districts across this state will burn through more of our tax dollars hiring attorneys to try and weasel out of a simple public record request by Senator Tom James asking for the names and salaries of thos...

 

 



Don't miss the first episode of our brand new podcast "Liberty Talk." In this first episode staff members Evan Blauser and Philip Baron take a hard look at Wyoming Medicaid funding in special education.

 

 



Transparency Before Taxes Video, enjoy.



 

 



Many people have misconceptions about school choice. The caller on this radio interview says Wyoming has school choice because we already have private religious schools. But how can a child with little family support afford to go to that school? Education choice supports different types of schools from technical education to online learning and tut...

 

 



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We recently overheard an opinion that Washington D.C.'s K-12 schools have had the greatest improvement in National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores of any jurisdiction in the U.S. in recent years. We've also heard Wyoming legislators heap praises on Wyoming's school system for its improved NAEP scores. Let's compare them, shall we? ...



 

 



Bob Nelson talks with Glenn Woods about Wyoming school staffing.



 

 



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Here is a question often heard since the extent of Wyoming's K-12 funding shortfall has become widely discussed; "Is Wyoming education top-heavy with administrative staff?" The short answer would appear to be yes. Graph 1 uses data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) from fall 2013 (the most recent available) in two separ...



 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 









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