Educators back lawmakers' education reform actions

Educators applaud changes Wyoming lawmakers made to the state's effort to improve K-12 public education. Key changes made during the recently completed legislative session include delaying until the 2013-14 school year the start of measuring how well each school is doing in relation to student performance. In addition, the effort to develop a system to measure the performance of individual teachers, superintendents, principals and other educators will be delayed until the 2015-16 school year. And the concept of trying to link a specific teacher - a so-called teacher of record - to a student's performance has been dropped. Representatives of teachers, school boards and school administrators say that the changes are helpful and that education reform shouldn't be rushed. Lawmakers say more education reform work is still to come.