Millions cut from school districts

“I tried really hard, but still didn’t do everything I wanted to,” Wyoming state representative John Freeman said at last week’s Sweetwater County School District No. 2 board meeting.

He described it as a rough legislative session.

Green River’s representatives thought the money was going to be there for the upcoming biennium after last year’s recalibration, but then it wasn’t and was taken out. Freeman said the money was put back by the governor, and then lastly taken out again by the Joint of Appropriations Committee.

“The Joint of Appropriations Committee did their ‘magic,’” he said.

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