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Wyoming education chief outlines six priorities; lawmakers press over charter board pay
Summary
Superintendent Megan Degenfelder told the Joint Appropriations Committee her Department of Education budget centers on six priorities — parental transparency, CTE, civics, reduced bureaucracy, teacher supports and literacy — and requested exception funding for IT, charter authorizing board operations and a state literacy position. Lawmakers pressed the department to revise an executive director pay recommendation for the charter authorizing board.
Megan Degenfelder, Wyoming’s state superintendent of public instruction, presented the Department of Education’s (agency 206) budget and said the department’s strategic plan focuses on six priorities: parental empowerment and curriculum transparency, career and technical education, patriotism and civics, reducing bureaucracy, supporting teachers, and early literacy. “I am extremely proud of the work of the department of education over the last 2 years,” she said, citing modest gains on state assessments: English language arts and science have returned to pre‑pandemic levels and math is “0.4 away” from pre‑pandemic achievement.
Degenfelder walked the committee through the agency’s exception requests. Priority items include IT replacement (65 laptops and associated software), creation of a separate budget unit for the…
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