Teacher unions are racing to stop greater education choice from spreading to Wyoming.
But parents there already know that more education options would be valuable for them, and special interest groups’ latest dirty political tactics only make them look desperate.
“It’s either, you support families or you don’t,” says Mary Schmidt, a Wyoming parent in Natrona County, 40 minutes outside of Casper. “We want kids educated, and we have to acknowledge that education comes in different forms,” she said in an interview.
Schmidt is a parent who homeschools her children and a member of the local Moms for Liberty chapter, but she also takes advantage of services provided by local public schools.
She supports a new proposal from Republican state Rep. Ocean Andrew that would make the state’s education savings accounts available to all Wyoming students, removing…
