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Article: PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
- Article from:
- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
- Article date:
- March 27, 2002
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Wyoming voters would be wise to change the way this state's
superintendent of public instruction is put into office. It is way
past time to insulate that office from politics.
Presently, Wyoming's school superintendent is elected by the
registered voters of the state. Members of the state's board of
education are appointed by the governor.
Electing the superintendent puts that person too much at the whims
of politics, requiring him or her to bend to the political winds
rather than do the right -- and often hard -- thing for this state's
young people. We are convinced that if Wyoming's superintendent were
appointed, this state would not have a three-tiered diploma system
ready to dumb down ...