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Education is the future guarantee of our federal republic. Without an educated citizenry we risk losing our sovereignty to a weakened power in the people to demand government that is representative of our founding. We will lose our inheritance if we do not preserve a true history, tangible skills and motivational accountability in our education...

Education is the future guarantee of our federal republic. Without an educated citizenry we risk losing our sovereignty to a weakened power in the people to demand government that is representative of our founding. We will lose our inheritance if we do not preserve a true history, tangible skills and motivational accountability in our education for our children.

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Cassie Craven visits KFBC to talk School Choice

Many people have misconceptions about school choice. The caller on this radio interview says Wyoming has school choice because we already have private religious schools. But how can a child with little family support afford to go to that school? Education choice supports different types of schools from technical education to online learning and tut...

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Parents Unite! Event 2 of 7 ~ Video


Denisha Merriweather is the politically appointed liaison for Youth and School Choice related matters in the Office of Communications and Outreach at the U.S. Department of Education. She is here in Wyoming to share how having educational options changed her life. Please enjoy this informative video. 

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Parents Unite!


If you weren't able to join the live event on June 26th, no problem. Please click to watch the full event now. Stay tuned to wyliberty.org for information on future events. 

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Public Charter Schools versus Traditional Public Schools- What’s The Difference?

by Jessica Leach Are public charter schools any different from traditional public schools? Wyoming's top five performing schools, according to the Wyoming Department of Education State Growth and Achievement Report form the 2016-2017 school year are as follows: Snowy Range Academy, public charter school (Albany County #1): 87% proficiency in math a...

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Would Education Choice Work in Wyoming?

by Jessica Leach When education choice is mentioned in Wyoming, the reply often is, "school choice won't work in Wyoming", or "Wyoming doesn't have enough students to support different choices". Children living in Wyoming's most remote localities, however, would simply disagree. Grace Anderson, a graduating senior from Crook County, boasts an impre...

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Wyoming Education Funding


The Wyoming school system receives $19000.00 a year per student for funding. Amazingly, this increase in funding has not yielded any improvements overtime in performance test scores. Why aren't our educators and legislators held accountable for this disconnect of funding and lack of results? The very fact that these actual spending, funding and tes...

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Wyoming PAWS – Teaching to the Test Part II


Wyoming K-12 school personnel reportedly feel they've been required to "teach to the test" for a number of years now. Our previous article documented how, overall, the state is not excelling at doing that though a few individual school districts scoring well and a handful are showing improvement. This article focuses on the improvement (or lack of ...

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Wyoming PAWS – Teaching to the Test Part I


Wyoming K-12 schools have felt required to "teach to the test" for a number of years now. Wyoming Liberty Group wrote earlier about how the state overall has fallen short of success in spite of those efforts. Here we report on those shortcomings, and rare successes, by individual school districts. We use Wyoming's PAWS (Proficiency Assessments for ...

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Wyoming K-12 Achieving Excellence?


A number of our legislators claim we cannot cut education spending because we don't want to settle for mediocrity. Please see the graph below of 2016 ACT® results for states where 100 percent of 11th graders take the test (100% ACT states). From it, a disinterested observer could easily conclude that mediocrity is precisely what Wyoming has achieve...

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Wyoming K-12: What Will It Take?


What will it take to convince us our K-12 education system is not a success and needs to be held responsible for its failures? We recently got the latest 11-Grade ACT® scores from the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE). They show basically two-thirds of our kids failed to reach proficiency – just as in 2015-16. The press release of August 16 fro...

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