Title 21, Title 21 — Education

Disposition of fines, penalties and forfeitures. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures provided by the school laws may be recovered by an action by any citizen in the name of the people of the state of Wyoming for the use of the proper school district or county, and when they acc…

Apportionment of funds by county treasurer. On the second Monday of each month the county treasurer shall apportion all monies in the county treasury belonging to the county school fund, including all interest earned thereon and including fines and forfeitures, among the various …

Distribution to school districts of money in common school account for use of public schools. Between January 1 and June 30 of each year, if there is any money to the credit of the common school account within the permanent land income fund for the use of the public schools in th…

Levy of state tax; disposition of funds; reduction of mill levy. (a) For the support of the public elementary and secondary schools of the state, there shall be assessed and levied each year a state tax of twelve (12) mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property …

State treasurer to keep separate account. The state treasurer shall keep a separate account and except as otherwise provided by law all monies appropriated for school purposes shall be kept in such account.

Foundation program account established; disposition of monies. (a) The public school foundation program account is established to consist of funds appropriated to, or designated to the account by law, or by gift from whatever source, for distribution to districts in accordance wi…

School foundation program reserve account; purposes. The school foundation program reserve account created by 2014 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 26, Section 300(g) is continued and codified. Funds within the account shall only be expended by legislative appropriation. All funds w…

Eligibility to share in distribution of money from foundation account; mandatory financial reporting; prohibition of spending foundation program funds on capital construction. (a) Each district which meets the following requirements is eligible to share in the distribution of fun…

Determination of amount to be included in foundation program for each district. (a) Repealed By Laws 1997 Special Session, ch. 3, § 304. (b) Repealed By Laws 1997 Special Session, ch. 3, § 304. (c) Repealed By Laws 1997 Special Session, ch. 3, § 304. (d) Repealed By Laws 1997 Spe…

Education resource block grant model components. (a) This section is intended to specify the education resource block grant model components and computations necessary to execute the 2025 cost of education study as required by W.S. 21-13-309(t) and as adopted and modified by the …

Annual computation of district revenues. (a) To ensure revenues available to each district are uniformly sufficient to enable compliance with the uniform standards for educational programs prescribed under W.S. 21-9-101 and 21-9-102 and to secure state board accreditation of educ…

Determination of amount to be distributed to each district from foundation account; undistributed balance; prohibition on expenditures. (a) The amount of money which shall be distributed to each district in accordance with this article from the public school foundation program ac…

Prorating payments when income from foundation account insufficient. (a) To preserve the integrity of the foundation account for the biennium and so that payments can be made during the full school year for each year of the biennium, if it appears to the state superintendent that…

Distribution of funds from foundation account; property tax and cash reserve adjustment; regulations. (a) For each school year the state auditor, on the certification of the state superintendent, shall draw warrants on the state treasurer for the amount of money which shall be di…

Costs of court ordered placement of children in private residential treatment facilities, group homes, day treatment programs and juvenile detention facilities. (a) The department of family services shall establish an account to pay residential and treatment costs excluding educa…

Interfund borrowing. (a) The state treasurer may utilize interfund loans to the public school foundation program account to ensure statutory payments are made when dedicated revenues are not yet received. Interfund loans under this subsection may be made from the legislative stab…

Student transportation; amount within school foundation program formula for transportation maintenance and operations expenditures and school bus purchases; school year 2026-2027 reimbursement; repeal of subsection (o) of this section effective July 1, 2027; district reporting re…

Special education; amount provided for special education programs and services; reimbursement for out-of- district placements; district reporting requirements; billing for Medicaid authorized school based services. (a) As used in this section: (i) "General fund operating expendit…

Teacher extra compensation adjustment to district total amount per ADM. (a) A district may pay extra compensation to a teacher as necessary to employ teachers for providing educational programs at locations which because of their unique circumstances require additional pay. Extra…

Virtual education; program content; agreements between districts authorized; remote education. (a) Repealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 95, § 502. (b) Repealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 95, § 502. (c) Repealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 95, § 502. (d) Repealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 95, § 502. (e) Repealed By L…

Cooperative services incentive. (a) If two (2) or more districts enter into an arrangement to combine student transportation services, the district shall receive an amount in addition to the guarantee under W.S. 21-13-309(p) during the succeeding school year, subject to the follo…

Education costs of children certified by the department of health for treatment in psychiatric residential treatment facilities. (a) The department of education using federal or public school foundation program account funds as appropriated by the legislature, or both, shall pay …

Career and technical education equipment grants; application; criteria; limitations. (a) A school district may apply to the state department of education for state assistance to fund the purchase of supplies, materials and equipment for a new or existing career and technical educ…

Career and technical education supplies, materials, equipment and repair of equipment; criteria; limitations. (a) To augment amounts within the education resource block grant model available to districts for career and technical education programs, the department of education sha…

Retirement; K-12 public school employees. In addition to amounts resourced and computed by the education resource block grant model and amounts reimbursed under W.S. 21- 13-320 and 21-13-321, the department of education shall reimburse each school district for retirement benefits…

Instructional reserve account; expenditures; reporting. (a) Each school district may establish an instructional reserve account. (b) The account shall consist of any unexpended and unencumbered funds resourced through the education resource block grant model, pursuant to W.S. 21-…

Dual enrollment district reimbursement program; administration; application; distribution. (a) In addition to funding generated by the education resource block grant model, the department of education shall reimburse each school district for amounts expended for student enrollmen…

Board of trustees of any school district authorized to hold election; building or repayment fund generally. (a) The board of trustees of any school district may, whenever a majority thereof so decide, submit to the electors of the district the question whether the board shall be …

Conduct of election; levy of tax; custody and investment of funds raised. (a) The election in connection with the question under W.S. 21-13-501 shall be held on a date and in the manner prescribed for elections on the issuance of school bonds, except that the ballots must contain…

Election on issuance of bonds; discontinuance of tax levy. At any time after the raising of a building fund has been commenced by any school district, the board of school trustees may submit to the electors of the district, as provided for bond elections by the Political Subdivis…

Special reserve fund. (a) Except as prohibited under subsection (b) of this section, the board of trustees of each Wyoming school district may create a special reserve fund of a specified amount, for the purpose of purchasing or replacing specified equipment or a depreciation res…

Submission of question to electors authorized; purposes for which indebtedness may be created; required public hearing on bonding proposition; reserve fund for maintenance required. (a) The board of trustees of a school district may, after conducting at least two (2) public heari…

Construction of school building on leased land; state and its agencies authorized to enter into leases. A school building may be constructed on leased land provided that the lease shall be for a term of years not less than the economic life of the building as determined by the bo…

Limits on indebtedness. Each school district actually and physically operating within its boundaries a school shall have a limit on outstanding indebtedness of ten percent (10%) of the assessed value of the taxable property therein. Nothing in this section shall be construed as p…

Sale of bonds generally. If a proposed issue of bonds has been approved in the election and issuance thereof has been authorized by the school district board of trustees as provided by this article, the bonds shall thereafter at one (1) time or from time to time be sold at public…

Printing and numbering of bonds. After ascertaining the best terms upon, and the lowest interest at which said bonds can be sold, the board of trustees shall cause said bonds to be suitably printed or lithographed, with coupons, if any, attached, and thereafter shall have said bo…

Execution, form and contents of bonds. (a) Said bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board of trustees and countersigned by the county treasurer. The coupons, if any, shall be signed by the county treasurer. The clerk of the board shall endorse a certificate upon every bo…

Record of bonds sold and delivered. A record of any bonds sold and delivered by the district shall be kept by the county treasurer in a public book provided for that purpose, and therein shall be stated the number, date, amount, time and place of payment, rate of interest, number…

Terms of bonds; negotiability. Bonds issued by school districts pursuant to the provisions of this article shall bear interest payable annually or semiannually, and evidenced by one (1) or two (2) sets of coupons, if any, except that the first coupon may evidence interest for a p…

How bonds to mature. The various annual maturities shall commence not later than the third year after the date of the bonds. All bonds shall mature serially, at the option of the board of trustees, in substantially equal annual installments of principal, or upon an amortization p…

Sale to be conducted by board of trustees; disposition of proceeds. The sale of the bonds shall be conducted by the school district board of trustees. Proceeds from the sale of the bonds shall be paid to the school district treasurer for deposit in the school district treasury.

Price of bonds; bids. The bonds may be sold at, above or below the par value thereof as determined by the board of trustees, but the bonds shall be sold at a price such that the net effective interest rate for the issue of bonds does not exceed the maximum net effective interest …

Security for payment of bonds. The full faith, credit, and all taxable property lying within the school district are solemnly pledged for the payment of the principal and the interest of all bonds issued pursuant to this article.

Tax levy. The board of county commissioners shall cause to be levied annually upon all taxable property of the school district, in addition to other authorized taxes, a sufficient sum to pay the principal and interest on school district bonds as the payments thereon become due. A…

Payment of bonds before collection of tax levy. In the event that the tax for the payment of the principal or interest on any bonds issued at any time under the provisions of this article is not levied or collected in time to meet such payment, the principal or interest shall be …

County treasurer to pay bonds and report payment to board of trustees. The county treasurer shall pay the principal and interest of any bonds issued under this article by such school district, when the same becomes due, and all amounts so paid must be reported to the school distr…