Listen to the podcast version (MP3) Good morning. Tonight the candidates for state superintendent face off on Wyoming PBS, Gov. Gordon is pressing voters to reject Prop 1, and the State Board of Education meets virtually to advance new social studies standards. Meanwhile, school-board contests are heating up in Sweetwater County and the national school-choice debate is getting a new federal twist. Here's what matters. Tonight: Cordova and Harshman Debate at 8 p.m. on Wyoming

Listen to the podcast version (MP3) Wyoming's three candidates for governor — Republican Eric Barlow, Constitution Party candidate Rebecca Bextel, and Democrat Kenneth Casner — debated Wednesday night at Riverton High School in a Wyoming PBS forum. With twenty days until Election Day, here is where they stand on the issues facing Wyoming's schools. A note on sourcing: the Oct 14 Wyoming PBS debate did not produce a transcript, but a morning-after recap (wyomingnews.com, publi

Listen to the podcast version (MP3) Three weeks from Election Day, school governance is on the ballot across Wyoming. Albany County voters will reshape most of their school board, the property-tax fight has pulled in the community colleges, and the race for superintendent of public instruction is now a two-way contest — with both candidates opposed to school vouchers. Here is what matters this morning, in about five minutes. Six of nine Albany County school board seats are on