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) 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) Today's EdWeek Update looks outward and lands close to home. California is rethinking how it tests its youngest learners. A superintendent is answering school choice by building microschools instead of fighting it. And a new survey says students are warming to non- degree pathways faster than their counselors can keep up. None of these stories is about Wyoming directly — but every one of them touches a decision Wyoming boards are making rig

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

Listen to the podcast version (MP3) Morning, Wyoming. Election Day is 23 days out, and the biggest fight on the ballot isn't for an office — it's over the property-tax dollars that fund schools, colleges and counties. 1. The ballot: Proposition 1 turns property taxes into education's election fight. The People's Initiative to Limit Property Tax — Proposition 1 — would exempt 50% of a primary residence's assessed value from property taxation, and it is now the centerpiece of t