--- title: Education - Wyoming Liberty Group - Wyoming Liberty Group description: Wyoming Liberty Group, a 501c3, founded in 2008 with the purpose of inviting citizens to prepare for informed, active and confident involvement in local and sta canonical_url: https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/education?start=50 language: en-GB notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/education?start=50. markdown-tokens: 3439 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/education?start=50. 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However, the concept of efficiency is so inconvenient it was scarcely mentioned in the course of more than twenty years of litigation about K-12 funding. The result is the mammoth and terrifically expensive education system we now have. Efficiency often sim... \[ Continue reading\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/inconveniently-inefficient) ## \[When Hope Clashes with the Reality of Wyoming Education\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/when-hope-clashes-with-the-reality-of-wyoming-education) Wednesday, 31 August 2016 \[Wyliberty\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/current-posts/blogger/derrickcook) \[Education\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education) !\[\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/942/b2ap3\_large\_pupil-teacher-ratios-graph.jpg) We all get the warm fuzzies, don't we, when the auto mechanic confidently assures us he knows the cause of our car's clunking, that it can be fixed by end of day and it will only cost a small amount? Sure; but then hope and reality clash when the work starts. Taking a look under the hood, the mechanic decides whatever it is, it's going to take long... \[ Continue reading\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/when-hope-clashes-with-the-reality-of-wyoming-education) ## \[Not proficient in reading and math? No job for you!\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/not-proficient-in-reading-and-math-no-job-for-you) Wednesday, 24 August 2016 \[Wyliberty\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/current-posts/blogger/derrickcook) \[Education\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education) \[Government Programs\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs) !\[\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/935/b2ap3\_large\_2015-16\_ACT\_Performance\_Levels.jpg) We read frequently about employers who desperately want to hire and put people to work. And we often read about how young people are desperate to find jobs "with a living wage." So why aren't they teaming up and living happily ever after? Where's the disconnect? It's in basic skills. Employers routinely report that people they interview don't have ... \[ Continue reading\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/not-proficient-in-reading-and-math-no-job-for-you) ## \[Education Consultant Faults Wyoming\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs/education-consultant-faults-wyoming) Wednesday, 17 August 2016 \[Wyliberty\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/current-posts/blogger/derrickcook) \[Education\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education) \[Government Programs\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs) !\[\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/929/b2ap3\_large\_P-O\_Spending\_History\_Graph.jpg) Wyoming has been paying a ton of money for K-12 education since 2005. The reason for the heavy spending? It was a major Wyoming Supreme Court/Legislative overhaul of the way our schools were being funded to equalize spending among students. Now we find that the consultants, on whose advice the spending was largely based, criticize the system for we... \[ Continue reading\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs/education-consultant-faults-wyoming) ## \[Wyoming Must Reduce Education Spending\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/wyoming-must-reduce-education-spending) Friday, 15 July 2016 \[Wyliberty\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/current-posts/blogger/derrickcook) \[Economic\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/economic) \[Education\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education) State revenues are declining dramatically and are expected to continue to decline. That means big ticket items, even crucial ones like K-12 education, must feel the pinch. No one wants the quality of education in Wyoming to drop, but the spending on it must decrease. Why? The Consensus Revenue Estimating Group (CREG) projected in January that total... \[ Continue reading\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/wyoming-must-reduce-education-spending) ## \[Cost of K-12 Education in Wyoming\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs/cost-of-k-12-education-in-wyoming) Thursday, 30 June 2016 \[Wyliberty\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/current-posts/blogger/derrickcook) \[Education\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education) \[Government Programs\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs) WyLiberty's financial analyst Bob Nelson talks about the annual cost of K-12 education in Wyoming. \[ Continue reading\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs/cost-of-k-12-education-in-wyoming) ## \[Education Spending Wars About to Begin\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/education-spending-wars-about-to-begin) Friday, 11 March 2016 \[Wyliberty\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/current-posts/blogger/derrickcook) \[Education\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education) !\[\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/818/b2ap3\_large\_b2ap3\_large\_Public-School-Funding-Chart.jpg) by Wyoming Liberty Staff Members of the Wyoming House and Senate Education committee met last week at the close of the legislative session to discuss potential topics to study over the next 10 months. The meeting began with all of the lackluster enthusiasm of insomniacs watching a midnight infomercial. The usual flock of education bureaucrats and l... \[ Continue reading\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/education-spending-wars-about-to-begin) ## \[School Choice Growing\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education/school-choice-growing) Thursday, 25 February 2016 \[Wyliberty\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/current-posts/blogger/derrickcook) \[Education\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/blog/education) !\[\](https://mail.wyliberty.org/images/easyblog\_articles/804/b2ap3\_large\_b2ap3\_large\_school\_choice\_02.jpg) by Wyoming Liberty Staff Wyoming families and friends recently celebrated two school choice events to highlight Wyoming's growing participation in school choice through charter schools, private school, online learning and homeschooling. 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