A pair of bills adjusting the Hathaway Scholarship program is heading to the House. The scholarship is available to every in-state high school graduate and financially helps many students attend community college or the University of Wyoming.

The state program lost the majority of its budget last fall, when the Trump administration eliminated funding for SNAP-Ed. Now it’s spreading out educators and exploring more online classes.

Inflation and cost of heavy machinery were big concerns, as was the spread of invasive weeds like cheatgrass.

The commission will draft guidelines for ethical use in labs and classrooms, outline funding and partnership opportunities and more.

The on-time, four-year graduation rate for the 2024-2025 school year was the highest in at least a decade.

Wyoming’s recalibration of its public school funding model would boost teacher pay but cut their number while increasing target class sizes.

The U.S. Department of Education started to send notices of collection, which may include wage garnishment, to borrowers whose student loans have gone unpaid for more than nine months and are in default status. Employers can withhold up to 15% of disposable income, without a court order, from employees whose student loans are in default.

The $1.8 billion school recalibration bill will boost teacher pay but cut positions. The bill now heads to the full Legislature.

Recommended spending would increase narrowly, but by $88 million less than consultants suggest.

Freedom Caucus leaders pilloried environment and gender studies offerings at UW, saying they represented the “wrong direction” for Wyoming’s state university.