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The Wyoming Senate advanced a bill that would preserve the University of Wyoming (UW) Lab School, a K-8 school focusing on project and outdoor-based education in Laramie. The university sent the school an eviction notice last year, saying it was no longer serving the function of training teachers like it used to.

But lawmakers want it to return to serving that role in the face of the state’s teacher shortage. The bill would allow the Legislature to create a statutory board, budget some $5.5 million and oversee the school like it does other campus programs. Those against SF 126 said it’s government overreach. But Senator Charles Scott of Casper called the school “precious.” He said it has grassroots support and that UW and the school district are only thinking about money. The bill passed by six votes and now moves to the House for its consideration.

The Lab School has existed on the UW campus in some form for 135 years.