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The district, which serves Upton, is in its second year of offering online education to students statewide. This has nearly tripled their enrollment figures, which have been declining in recent years for in-person instruction.

The Education Recovery Scorecard is a joint research effort between Harvard and Stanford universities to measure the educational progress that students was lost or gained during the pandemic. Twenty nine states and Washington, D.C. have been ranked. Future research will focus on the effects of other factors that may have played a role, such as infection rates and how long schools were closed to in-person learning.

Sheridan County School District #1, which serves students primarily in schools in Big Horn and the Tongue River Valley, has had to turn more out of district students away due to their own student numbers being on the rise. This coincides with the increase in population in Sheridan County over the past several years.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm to School program has been adopted by some school districts throughout the state as well. Both school districts in Weston County approved the program for local use this school year, though only Upton schools are serving local food currently.

The federally funded program through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is administered by the Wyoming Department of Education and provides free meals for kids and teens who may not otherwise have regular access to food outside of the school year. The program saw a significant increase in the number of meals provided last year due to the pandemic.

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