Ben Moritz News Today

CHEYENNE — In response to a budget footnote that defunds the University of Wyoming’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI), the university’s Board of Trustees decided Thursday to create

CHEYENNE — Community colleges are burdened with the high costs of inflation, and the Wyoming Community College Commission is trying once again to get the state to pay its share.

CHEYENNE — Community colleges are burdened with the high costs of inflation, and the Wyoming Community College Commission is trying once again to get the state to pay its share.

CHEYENNE — Community colleges are burdened with the high costs of inflation, and the Wyoming Community College Commission is trying once again to get the state to pay its share.

CHEYENNE — Community colleges are burdened with the high costs of inflation, and the Wyoming Community College Commission is trying once again to get the state to pay its share.

SLEEPY EYE — Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s Schools students met four new teachers when the school year started. New teachers include high school science teacher B

As Gov. Ron DeSantis promotes claims that enslaved people developed skills for their personal benefit, and is requiring those teachings to middle schoolers, more groups are vehemently condemning the new standards. The Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association, which represents Black attorneys, issued a joint statement from its nine affiliate members expressing deep concerns. ...

Pennsylvania is still operating without a budget as the new school year approaches. House Bill 611 is now in the state Senate. It would provide more education funding and target more money to lower-income districts. ...

Fall semester is just weeks away, and many adults age 24 and older are tapping up to $72-hundred in scholarships to start or finish a college degree or certificate. Ben Moritz, deputy director of the the Wyoming Community College Commission, said the Kickstart Wyomings Tomorrow scholarship can be a pathway to good-paying, high demand jobs. Colleges have teamed up with businesses across the state to create credential programs that give students the training they need to succeed in a wide range ...