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According to a new policy in Colorado Springs, students need to put their phones away all day inside special pouches. Schools in Boise, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas already have similar policies.

Months after lawmakers passed the outline of a deal to sell the parcel to Grand Teton National Park during the last legislative session, its future remains tenuous.

The Wyoming Education Association, which represents 3,000 members statewide, alleges the state of Wyoming has failed to meet its constitutional obligation to adequately fund the state's public K-12 education system.

A lawsuit alleging the state of Wyoming is not adequately funding public schools will proceed to trial, after a Laramie County judge last week dismissed the state’s request to immediately rule on parts of the case.

Jeff Jones is the principal at Tongue River Middle School in Ranchester and is advocating for the removal of corporal punishment for Wyoming's 48 school districts and ending the legal protection of it by the state. Wyoming is currently one of 19 states that protect the practice in public schools.

There are currently several charter, private, and religiously affiliated K-12 schools in the state, though the vast majority of Wyoming students attend public schools the state's 48 districts. Choice advocates often claim that charter schools provide parents more options for their children's educations while opponents claim that students already have school choice and that they detract from the public school system, among other reasons.

Wyoming Governor Matt Mead says the state’s biggest future budget concern is K-12 education funding. During a news conference discussing his current…

In an effort to reduce spending in the budget, the State Senate has cut in half the money available to school districts to increase public school teacher…