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Educators Hear Support From Consultants For Current Funding Model

Willow Belden

  

A Wyoming legislative committee has been looking to trim education spending out of what is called the school funding model. A Denver-based consulting firm is in the process of reviewing the model to determine how much actually needs to be spent on education in the state.

It presented some initial findings this week. Wyoming Public Radio’s education reporter Tennessee Watson sat down with Campbell County District #1 Superintendent Boyd Brown and Converse County District #1 Superintendent Paige Fenton Hughes to get their reaction to what they’ve heard so far.

A draft report detailing ways to implement best practices and efficiencies in education is expected from consultants in mid-December.

Tennessee -- despite what the name might make you think -- was born and raised in the Northeast. She most recently called Vermont home. For the last 15 years she's been making radio -- as a youth radio educator, documentary producer, and now reporter. Her work has aired on Reveal, The Heart, LatinoUSA, Across Women's Lives from PRI, and American RadioWorks. One of her ongoing creative projects is co-producing Wage/Working (a jukebox-based oral history project about workers and income inequality). When she's not reporting, Tennessee likes to go on exploratory running adventures with her mutt Murray.
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