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Wyoming education officials confident that students are improving

Under No Child Left Behind benchmarks, 14 Wyoming School Districts and 180 schools failed to make what is called Adequate Yearly Progress. That is a large increase from last year, but Wyoming’s...

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Arapahoe School District names new superintendent

Fremont County School District 38 in Arapahoe has a new acting superintendent. Former assistant superintendent Chantell Denson stepped in last week when former Superintendent Jonathan Braack left to...

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Wyoming Requests Waiver From No Child Left Behind Tutoring Provision

The Wyoming Department of Education wants federal officials to allow schools labeled as "needing improvement" to provide tutoring and remedial help to students. Under the federal No Child Left Behind...

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Washington Gridlock Hurting Educators In Wyoming

This summer there's been a big push by the nation's powerful teacher unions to completely revamp the nation's standardized tests mandated under No Child Left Behind and then revamped with the new...

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Enzi Hopes To Lead Efforts To Reform The Affordable Care Act

U.S. Senator Mike Enzi is facing Charlie Hardy in the upcoming General Election. In his time in office Senator Enzi has been a key player on issues such as No Child Left Behind and the Affordable Care...

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Wyoming Could Lose After School Program Funds

Funding for Wyoming afterschool programs could be on the federal chopping block. Most afterschool programs in the state have been supported by more than $5 million in grants provided each year under...

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Wyoming Lawmakers Push For No Child Left Behind Rewrite

Wyoming lawmakers want more flexibility in how schools are assessed under the federal education law, No Child Left Behind. Members of the Legislature’s Select Committee on Statewide Education...

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Wyoming Teachers Group Wants Changes To Federal Education Law

The Wyoming Education Association says fixing the federal education law No Child Left Behind is a top priority as the group heads to the National Education Association’s annual meeting this weekend....

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As Congress Debates Federal Education Law, The Achievement Gap Is A Big Concern

The White House says neither of the bills in Congress to rewrite the country’s chief federal K-12 education law would do enough to close the achievement gap nationwide. In Wyoming’s lowest-performing...

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What Will A New Federal Education Law Mean For Wyoming?

The U.S. House and Senate will soon begin negotiations to reconcile two different bills that would rewrite the federal ‘No Child Left Behind’ education law. The law has not been updated in 14 years. On...

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Lummis And Enzi Support Changes To NCLB

Two pieces of legislation that could reform the controversial No Child Left Behind law are going to a conference committee. The Senate version of the bill allows states to determine how to use...

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Just 17 Percent Of Wyoming Schools Met Federal Expectations

School performance data released Tuesday by the Wyoming Department of Education shows a gap between how the state says its schools are doing and how the federal government says they’re doing under No...

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Wyoming's Teacher Equity Plan Approved

Wyoming’s plan to improve equal access to quality teachers has received federal approval. The U.S. Department of Education mandated all states to identify equity gaps and develop plans to fix them....

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Enzi Pleased With NCLB Revamp

Wyoming U.S. Senator Mike Enzi is thrilled with legislation that will revamp the No Child Left Behind education law. Enzi sat on the conference committee that came up with the final version of the...

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What Does A New Federal Education Law Mean For Wyoming?

This week, President Obama signed the ‘Every Student Succeeds Act’. It passed through Congress with bipartisan support and now replaces ‘No Child Left Behind’ as the latest version of the 1965...

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Wyo. Lawmakers Send Power Over Education To State

It took Congress eight years and countless hours of listening to angry teachers and parents, but 'No Child Left Behind' is soon to be a thing of the past. Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi is now the Budget...

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How might Wyoming benefit now that No Child Left Behind has been replaced?

How might Wyoming benefit now that No Child Left Behind has been replaced? Comment on this topic on the Wyoming Public Media Facebook page. WPM/NPR Community Discussion Rules By contributing your...

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State Lawmakers Welcome New Federal Education Law

Wyoming lawmakers are joining the state’s schools chief in praising the new federal education law that returns to the states the responsibility of measuring school performance. The Every Student...

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