District approves budget

The Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees approved their 2018-2019 budget Tuesday evening.

The budget, according to Chris Dean, business manager for the district, works to align the district’s resources to student achievement. With Enrolled Act 64, Dean said the district fared better than officials expected. The act came at the end of a legislative standoff between the state House and Senate in regards to education funding. The first year of the act takes the solution provided by the Wyoming House, which was the more supported of the two approaches and impacted districts le...