A special House committee to investigate Superintendent Cindy Hill's management of the state Education Department over the last two years will hold its first meeting Aug. 7 in Cheyenne. The Legislature's Management Council gave House Speaker Tom Lubnau permission to investigate information in a recent inquiry that Hill may have misused federal funds while she ran the agency. Hill was stripped of her authority over the agency by a new state law enacted this past winter. Hill has denied any wrongdoing and is challenging the constitutionality of the law. The Select Investigative Committee consists of 15 members. It includes all 13 members of the House Rules and Procedures Committee as well as Republican Reps. Mark Baker, of Rock Springs, and Nathan Winters, of Thermopolis.
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