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  • Bill on parental rights going to session

    Aedan Hannon, Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange|Nov 30, 2023

    CASPER — In August, lawmakers on the Joint Education Committee shot down a controversial ban on the “instruction” of gender identity and sexual orientation in Wyoming’s K-3 classrooms. For some conservative lawmakers and parents, it was a blow. But at the same time that the panel rebuffed Wyoming’s own version of a “Don’t Say Gay” law modeled after Florida’s, it also advanced the rest of a proposal to expand “parental rights” in education. After some debate, that draft bill is now heading to the 2024 legislative session. The Joint Education C...

  • UW reaches lowest enrollment since the late 1980s

    Aedan Hannon, Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange|Oct 19, 2023

    CASPER — Fall enrollment at the University of Wyoming continues to slide and has reached its lowest point in decades, but the school’s most recent census provided some good news for university leaders as they look to reverse worrying attendance trends. UW recorded jumps in both graduate and transfer students, while the school’s freshman retention rate also increased this fall, the university announced last month. Yet even with the gains, UW’s overall enrollment continued to decline, marking the fifth consecutive year enrollment at Wyoming...

  • Republicans fail again to end crossover voting 

    Aedan Hannon, Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange|Feb 16, 2023

    CASPER — Crossover voting has long rankled Wyoming Republicans. Lawmakers and party leaders have called for the end of the practice in which Democrats and independents instantly switch their party affiliation to cast a ballot in Republican primaries. National politics and the August 2022 Republican primaries supercharged their concerns as Democrats and independents changed their affiliations to back Wyoming’s former Rep. Liz Cheney. Those frustrations drove Wyoming lawmakers to once again attempt to eliminate crossover voting during this yea...