Listen to the podcast version (MP3) The Wyoming State Board of Education meets virtually this Thursday, October 15, and the proposed 2026 Social Studies Standards are expected to take center stage. The Wyoming Department of Education is slated to present the informal public input it collected this summer and fall on the draft standards — the next milestone in a review that began when a 24-member committee started drafting in January and continued through public surveys and th

Listen to the podcast version (MP3) Here is what national education news is talking about today — and why it matters in Wyoming. SCHOOL CHOICE KEEPS CLIMBING THE FEDERAL AGENDA A new federal tax-credit scholarship program is pushing public schools to set up systems to charge for expanded services — a practical headache for district finance offices. Meanwhile, the opt-in map is taking shape, with states deciding one by one whether to participate. Wyoming already has its own sk

Listen to the podcast version (MP3) Schools across the country are in the middle of a screen-time reckoning — and Wyoming is not exempt from it. THE PHONE QUESTION The most visible front is the cell phone. Districts nationwide are moving toward bell-to-bell phone restrictions, and school boards are the ones making the call. The debate splits two ways: phones as a discipline and distraction problem versus phones as a symptom of a bigger question about what the school day shoul