Over a decade ago, a private Christian college in Michigan began an effort to “revitalize” public education. Since 2010, Hillsdale College has helped launch and support dozens of new K-12 charter schools offering “an American Classical Education.”

A trio of new charter schools are opening in Wyoming this fall – and more could follow in the coming years after the Wyoming Legislature passed Senate File 174 in March. Sponsored by Sen. Ogden Driskill (R-Devil's Tower), the bill aims to streamline the application process for charter schools by creating a new board to approve and oversee them.

Wyoming lawmakers appear intent on providing residents with some relief from rising property taxes, though they have yet to decide exactly what help they’ll deliver.

On Friday, the Wyoming Legislature’s influential Joint Appropriations Committee recommended that the state set aside $5 million for a property tax refund program — five times the amount requested by the governor’s office.

Wyoming appears to be on course to raise tobacco taxes for the first time in 19 years, and in a rarity, there’s some support for the move. The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Interim Committee held a session on April 28 to consider whether to impose the state’s first tax hike on cigarettes since 2003.