SHERIDAN — Wyoming’s two highest spending state departments will have spending under strict scrutiny ahead of the Wyoming Legislature’s 2026 budget session.

For the 2025-2026 biennium, the state’s education spending totaled just less than $1.86 billion for the school foundation program and just more than $390 million within the Wyoming Department of Education.

The legislature’s Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration is tasked with recalibrating the state’s K-12 school block grant funding model.

In 1995, the Wyoming Supreme Court ordered the legislature to adjust funding levels every two years to account for inflation and review the state’s school funding model every five years to keep up with costs or change its components.

Lawmakers last adopted a school finance recalibratio

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