wyoming students

Statistics show that 81.8 percent of students graduated in the last school year, a decrease of just over a half of a percentage point since the 2020-21 school year, the highest in a nine year period. Despite the small decline, there is hope that it won't be a long-term trend. Wyoming's graduation rate has been above 80 percent since the 2015-16 school year and has climbed several points in the past decade. However, it's lagged behind national rates.

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 Reimagining and Innovating the Delivery of Education (RIDE) Council Advisory Group released its final report last week with recommendations on how to improve the state's K-12 education system. The goal is to make Wyoming competitive nationally and to be a leader on education related topics.

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.

The Wyoming Afterschool Alliance is offering Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge for school-aged students to submit ideas for services or products that can benefit their communities, the environment, or the state as a whole. The application window opened at the beginning of October and runs through the end of November.

Many parent groups across the nation are expressing concern about the data school districts collect on students and how it’s used. Wyoming’s House of…

A group called America’s edge says many Wyoming students lack the education they may need for future jobs. Martha Brooks of the national jobs group says…