Wyo. Begins To Consider Finance Intricacies

A long-awaited report spelling out the cost of education in Wyoming may mean good news for the state's large school districts but a lobbying battle for smaller ones.

The study, part of the state's answer to a wide-ranging school finance decision by the state supreme court last year, was submitted to the Wyoming legislature last week. Prepared by the consulting firm Management Analysis and Planning LLC of San Francisco, the document attempts to make sense of how much the state spends on education.

It will now be a working document for lawmakers in their efforts to design a new finance system--one that complies with the court's requirement that all Wyoming students be given...