Wyoming’s new universal school voucher program spurred intense debate during the 2025 Legislature, and a major sticking point among lawmakers and education officials was a belief that it ...

CHEYENNE — The constitutionality of a universal school voucher bill was discussed by Wyoming lawmakers in the Senate Education Committee Wednesday morning before they advanced it in a 3-2 vote.

Lawmakers created a new program in 2024 to give income-qualified families up to $6,000 in state funds to offset private school fees, pre-K tuition or homeschool education costs.

House Bill 199 will give $7,000 to families to pay for private school or tutoring. Gov. Gordon lauds it in the wake of fierce criticism that it’s unconstitutional.

Wyoming lawmakers have launched the state’s 2025 school recalibration, an exhaustive and tedious assessment of public education funding mandated every five years.

The average private school tuition for an elementary school in Wyoming is just under $6,900, which means the new account figure would put those schools within reach for families.