Wyoming Education Association

Public school teachers and the state they work for are waiting on a ruling in the lawsuit between them. A revamp of the school funding model continues in the meantime.

In a brief submitted to the Wyoming Supreme Court, lawyers for the state argue a claim of inadequate school funding brought by teachers "defies reason."

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.