Education, gas tax top Wyoming’s agenda

CHEYENNE — When Wyoming’s Legislature convenes at noon on Jan. 14, it will embark on what likely will be a historic journey to reform the way the state finances public education.

The Legislature must comply with a 1995 Wyoming Supreme Court decision declaring the state’s school financing system unconstitutional, and the outcome probably will have profound implications and impacts on every person and every sector of the state.

Business people obviously are interested in education taxation, but they also have a stake in a good education system.

“Employers are interested in the quality of education, so there can be a qualified work force,´…