WY-TOPP
Weston County School District No. 1 administrators reviewed recently released Wyoming’s Test of Proficiency and Progress testing results — better known as WYTOPP — with the school board this month, and revealed that the district saw some gains in middle school but still struggles to reach certain...
Degenfelder: ‘We must do better’
CHEYENNE — Proficiency rates among Wyoming students increased in all content areas during the 2022-23 school year, according to results from the state’s standardized tests, but still remained slightly below pre-pandemic levels.
Wyoming Superintendent of Public...
LANDER — Some of the schools on the Wind River Reservation are struggling; this isn’t a new problem, but it is an important one.
Across the nation, Native American students often score lower than the average on tests such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Native American...
CHEYENNE — Solutions for teacher recruitment and retention were presented Wednesday to the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Education Committee, leaving lawmakers to consider whether these would be addressed in the upcoming K-12 funding model recalibration.
The Wyoming Retention and Recruitment Task...
As the end of the school year creeps closer, schools in Weston County School District No. 1 are beginning to enter the WY-TOPP testing window.
While both Newcastle Elementary School and Newcastle High School have been designated as “partially meeting expectations” by the Wyoming Department of...
June brought with it sunny weather and outdoor events, including RPM Days, held at the Weston County Fairgrounds. In the photo above, captured by Walter Sprague, children braved the deep mud during the bubble gum race. Below, after the races, the Brandon Jones Band from Rapid City, S.D., gave a spirited concert — which was unfortunately cut short when the weather took a turn for the worse (photo by Walter Sprague).
The year 2022 was packed with its fair share of interesting ups and downs for Weston County, and there was especially a lot of change in the local government. New faces will appear on the Wyoming State Legislature as well as the city council, county commission board and the school board, with the...
SHERIDAN — Sheridan County School District 2 officials expressed some frustration Monday to local legislators regarding a bill passed in 2022 that requires school districts to use specific literacy screening and intervention tools as outlined by the Wyoming Department of Education and implement...
ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) performance goals for Newcastle High School.
Both Newcastle Elementary School and Newcastle High School administrations have completed their mandated Wyoming Department of Education (DOE) School Improvement Plans after the two schools were designated as “partially meeting expectations” as a result of performance on last year’s statewide...
Both Newcastle Elementary School and Newcastle High School are preparing improvement plans to submit to the state after the schools were designated as “partially meeting expectations” by the Wyoming Department of Education.
“School performance is evaluated on a combination of student performance...
CASPER — Wyoming’s 2022 scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress dropped slightly from 2019, mirroring a countrywide trend of decreasing scores on the test following the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) testing is administered every two years...
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