The legislature’s education recalibration committee met last week in an effort to resolve the $400 million shortfall in funding the Wyoming’s schools in the next biennium.
According to State Senator Dave Kinskey, raising taxes is not the answer…
Education cuts made in the last year amounts to slightly more than 10% of the cuts necessary to protect the current basket of goods…
Since salaries and benefits account for the bulk of most school budgets, the answer to resolving the school funding issue appears to include a smaller “basket of goods” available to the state’s students.
