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Education is the future guarantee of our federal republic. Without an educated citizenry we risk losing our sovereignty to a weakened power in the people to demand government that is representative of our founding. We will lose our inheritance if we do not preserve a true history, tangible skills and motivational accountability in our education...

Education is the future guarantee of our federal republic. Without an educated citizenry we risk losing our sovereignty to a weakened power in the people to demand government that is representative of our founding. We will lose our inheritance if we do not preserve a true history, tangible skills and motivational accountability in our education for our children.

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Reality Check


Wyoming's Joint Interim Education Committee and Select Committee on Education Accountability both met on November 14th and 15th. The Legislative Service Office opened the agenda on the 14th with a fiscal update including a forecast out to 2021-22 which was grim, to say the least. After that reminder, the committees continued conversations on topics...
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Harping on NAEP


NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) and standardized reading and math test scores are often referred to by Wyoming Liberty Group in its articles about Wyoming K-12 education. Since WLG is not enthusiastic about federal involvement in education, people may reasonably ask why WLG seems to harp on them. To begin with, reading and math a...
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Schools Must Compete

Who ever heard of a football team not improving by competing? Practice makes perfect, but perfect gets better through competition. Competition reveals unknown flaws, generates new ideas and improves execution of old methods. Our K-12 education system needs improvement as Wyoming Liberty Group has written previously. Assuming our schools want to get...
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One Billion Smackaroonies


What do we do when we encounter a luxurious buffet but are on a diet? We carefully take only the permitted amount of each allowed item, right? And then we consciously take a smidgen more of each. Soon the plate is overloaded (and maybe we go back for seconds – or thirds!) Is that what's happened in Wyoming K-12 education over the last decade? Take ...
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Instruction or Administration?


Bob Nelson talks with Glenn Woods on BoldRepublic about how little K-12 spending goes to classroom instruction. 
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Wyoming Education Spends a Lot of Bucks With Little Bang


Robert Nelson explains how Wyoming spends more on education than its neighbors but shows no improvement in student test scores.  
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Inconveniently inefficient


Wyoming's constitution mandates K-12 education be universal, free of charge and efficient 1. However, the concept of efficiency is so inconvenient it was scarcely mentioned in the course of more than twenty years of litigation about K-12 funding. The result is the mammoth and terrifically expensive education system we now have. Efficiency often sim...
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When Hope Clashes with the Reality of Wyoming Education


We all get the warm fuzzies, don't we, when the auto mechanic confidently assures us he knows the cause of our car's clunking, that it can be fixed by end of day and it will only cost a small amount? Sure; but then hope and reality clash when the work starts. Taking a look under the hood, the mechanic decides whatever it is, it's going to take long...
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Not proficient in reading and math? No job for you!


We read frequently about employers who desperately want to hire and put people to work. And we often read about how young people are desperate to find jobs "with a living wage." So why aren't they teaming up and living happily ever after? Where's the disconnect? It's in basic skills. Employers routinely report that people they interview don't have ...
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Education Consultant Faults Wyoming


Wyoming has been paying a ton of money for K-12 education since 2005. The reason for the heavy spending? It was a major Wyoming Supreme Court/Legislative overhaul of the way our schools were being funded to equalize spending among students. Now we find that the consultants, on whose advice the spending was largely based, criticize the system for we...
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1740 H Dell Range Blvd. #274
Cheyenne, WY 82009

Phone: (307) 632-7020