Wyoming Education Association

A Laramie County court has blocked the first payments to families receiving a school voucher under the state’s expanded Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act. This follows a temporary injunction the Laramie County district court issued last month.

The lawsuit alleges the program, which offers state funds to families for home and private schooling costs, will support schools that deny LGBTQ+ and disabled children. The superintendent said there’s no evidence that’s happening in Wyoming.

The program would give up to $7,000 of public funds to help families pay for private, charter or home schooling costs. Wyoming's teachers association argues it will defund public schools.

As Wyoming starts recalibrating its public school funding, state educators and parents have brought a second lawsuit alleging the state is failing to support its schools.

Educators and parents have filed a lawsuit aiming to stop the state's school voucher program from going into effect this summer. The program allows state money to be used for private school tuition.

A bill in the Wyoming Legislature would prohibit the state government from requiring its employees to use co-workers' preferred pronouns. It passed the Senate and is now headed to the House, where it died last year.

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.

Laramie County District Court is set to hear a case in which the Wyoming Education Association accuses the state of failing to fund schools adequately for more than a decade. The bench trial begins June 3.

The plan is effect from this year until 2027, which marks the end of Megan Degenfelder's first term. Attracting and retaining teachers, transparency, and reflecting the needs of Wyoming's educational situation are also of the document. But the leaders of Wyoming Education Association and the Wyoming School Boards Association say they had no input in drafting it.

The survey was administered jointly by the University of Wyoming College of Education and the Wyoming Education Association. Factors such as teacher pay, the effects and demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, student assessments, and mental health concerns were some of the major reasons why teachers have considered leaving the profession.