Jarratt is the project manager for the Center for Transforming Education at the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute has been providing resources on issues like school choice since 1984. The Heartland Institute is one of the nation's most influential think tanks, producing very well regarded articles and policy measures conservative people ...

Denisha Merriweather is the politically appointed liaison for Youth and School Choice related matters in the Office of Communications and Outreach at the U.S. Department of Education. She is here in Wyoming to share how having educational options changed her life. Please enjoy this informative video. 

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by Jessica Leach When education choice is mentioned in Wyoming, the reply often is, "school choice won't work in Wyoming", or "Wyoming doesn't have enough students to support different choices". Children living in Wyoming's most remote localities, however, would simply disagree. Grace Anderson, a graduating senior from Crook County, boasts an impre...

The Wyoming school system receives $19000.00 a year per student for funding. Amazingly, this increase in funding has not yielded any improvements overtime in performance test scores. Why aren't our educators and legislators held accountable for this disconnect of funding and lack of results? The very fact that these actual spending, funding and tes...

Wyoming K-12 school personnel reportedly feel they've been required to "teach to the test" for a number of years now. Our previous article documented how, overall, the state is not excelling at doing that though a few individual school districts scoring well and a handful are showing improvement. This article focuses on the improvement (or lack of ...

A number of our legislators claim we cannot cut education spending because we don't want to settle for mediocrity. Please see the graph below of 2016 ACT® results for states where 100 percent of 11th graders take the test (100% ACT states). From it, a disinterested observer could easily conclude that mediocrity is precisely what Wyoming has achieve...

What will it take to convince us our K-12 education system is not a success and needs to be held responsible for its failures? We recently got the latest 11-Grade ACT® scores from the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE). They show basically two-thirds of our kids failed to reach proficiency – just as in 2015-16. The press release of August 16 fro...

What do PAWS, NAEP & ACT® have in common besides being arcane acronyms? They are all K-12 education testing systems, each testing different age groups by subject, with the object of assessing what kids know and can do. They've also become canaries in the coal mine telling us our education systems and theories are dangerously ineffective. The fi...

Wyoming Liberty Group attended the July 25 meeting of the legislature's Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration. It was interesting to see how much of a closed loop the process will be. The consultants engaged to do the work exclusively define interested stakeholders as elected government officials and employees plus employees of and lobby...