Education

Senate Joint Resolution 1 would lower the amount of school funding that Wyoming provides to the levels spent by neighboring states.

The Wyoming Department of Education released data on high school graduation rates across the state. While Albany County's numbers were comparable with the state average, the school district is looking to student engagement and career readiness strategies to boost graduation numbers.

The University of Wyoming Motorsports Club is ramping up their efforts for hands-on experience with a competition in 2019.

The Legislature convenes its budget session on Feb. 12 in Cheyenne.

Wyoming's public K-12 education system alone faces a more than $400 million deficit over the next two years.

The Wyoming Motorsports club is hoping to use skills learned in the classroom in a real–life, hands on learning situation to build an electric formula race car and enter it in the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Formula Hybrid competition in 2019 in Loudon, New Hampshire.

The University of Wyoming Cybersecurity Education and Research center is bringing cybersecurity education to UW students and the Wyoming community.

Currently, the state's 48 districts receive their funding in a block grant based on a metric of their attendance.

The bill will go before the full Legislature when it meets early next year.

The full Legislature, which meets next year, will have the final say in the matter.