Wyo Right to Read

🎉 Way to go, Wyoming! 🎉

Wyoming House passed SF59, and the Senate concurred with the House amendment. The bill has now cleared the Legislature and is headed to Governor Mark Gordon’s desk for signature.

SF59 establishes a K–12 Language and Literacy Program to ensure Wyoming students receive evidence-based reading instruction, along with early screeners, MTSS interventions, and Individual Reading Plans for struggling readers.

What changed in the amendment?
The amendment removed language that would have given the Professional Teaching Standards Board (PTSB) additional duties related to teacher literacy competency and licensing oversight. While PTSB’s role was scaled back, the core literacy supports for students remain in place.

This is a big step forward for Wyoming!!!

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📣 WYO Right to Read: Clarifying SF0059
We encourage all Wyomingns — regardless of political party — to understand what SF0059 actually does before voting.

SF0059 does not create new obligations for educators.
Federal law already requires Wyoming school districts to identify and support students with dyslexia and other reading disabilities. What this bill does is provide accountability and structured supports to help districts meet those existing legal requirements.

We believe in local control, but local control must include compliance with federal and state law and a commitment to every child’s legal right to a free and appropriate education.

We invite you to read the full formal rebuttal and learn more about the bill here:
👉 https://www.wyorighttoread.org/legislation

Thank you to all educators, families, and legislators working in good faith to ensure Wyoming students thrive.

Legislation | WYO Right to Read | WY Support Senate File 0059 for evidence-based reading instruction. Advocate for literacy rights for children with dyslexia in Wyoming.

🚨 SF59 UPDATE — ONE VOTE LEFT

SF59 has PASSED Second Reading in the House.
Third Reading — the final vote — is next.

This is the moment legislators need to hear from the people who live it every day.

📣 Families — what did or does your child go through everyday?
📣 Teachers — what happens when students don’t get the instruction they need?

Reading is not political.
Reading is a right.

Please email the representatives voting next and share your story:

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One email. One story. One child at a time.
Now is the time.

Big news for Wyoming families — SF59 just made it out of committee. 📚

For years parents, teachers, tutors, and students have been saying the same thing:
kids aren’t failing because they can’t learn… they’re failing because they weren’t taught how to read.

Today was a step toward changing that.

This bill moves Wyoming closer to what it should have always been — making reading a right, not a privilege.
Not something determined by a zip code.
Not something dependent on how hard a parent can fight.
And not something a child has to wait years to receive.

Earlier screening. Real intervention. Instruction that actually matches how the brain learns to read.

We still have work ahead, but today belongs to every family who spoke up, every educator who stood in the gap, and every student who felt invisible in a classroom.

Onward. 💛🤎

🚨 IT PASSED THE SENATE 🚨

SF0059 — the Wyoming K-12 Language & Literacy bill — has officially cleared the Senate and is now headed to the House.

This bill didn’t come from one group or one opinion.
It was built by Wyoming classroom teachers, principals, speech-language pathologists, literacy specialists, and the Wyoming Department of Education — the people working every day with students who are struggling to read.

They told the state exactly what students need:
✔ Early identification
✔ Evidence-based instruction
✔ Trained educators
✔ Real implementation — not just suggestions

This is the first time Wyoming has had a unified plan designed by the professionals actually responsible for teaching kids to read.

But now — in the House — efforts are being made to weaken the very parts that make the bill work.

When implementation is removed, the policy stays on paper and children stay behind.

This isn’t about politics.
This isn’t about control.
This is about whether Wyoming finally decides reading is a guaranteed skill — not something that depends on which classroom a child lands in.

Wyoming students don’t get lobbyists.
They get adults willing to speak up.

We are asking legislators to keep the bill intact and keep Wyoming children the priority.

Because learning to read should never be negotiable. 📚

Where does our property tax actually go?

This chart shows the 2025 distribution of Laramie County property taxes — and it tells a powerful story.

📊 The largest share goes to local school districts and the State School Foundation, yet families across Wyoming are still being told there isn’t funding or capacity for evidence-based reading instruction.

At the same time, too many children with dyslexia are still not receiving the structured literacy support they need to learn to read.

💡 Funding exists.
What’s missing is a system that ensures dollars are tied to proven instruction and real student outcomes.

Reading should be a right — not a privilege.

🔗 Read the full article (Wyoming News – Annie’s reporting):
https://www.wyomingnews.com/search/?f=html&t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&s=start_time&sd=desc&l=25&nsa=eedition&q=Property+tax+Annie

📣 Big news from WYO Right to Read!

The literacy bill advanced by the Joint Education Committee has officially been assigned and will now be shared as Senate File 0059 (SF0059).

This bill would help make reading a right — not a privilege — for Wyoming children.

👉 We’ve created a clear, section-by-section Bill Walk-Through with linked research articles and plain-language explanations so you can easily understand what the bill does and why it matters:

🔗 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SvmrW-4gspctLLslJLpTdXbuN6iRGJFa/view?usp=sharing

Please take a few minutes to review and share this resource as SF0059 moves forward.

📚 Wyoming kids deserve evidence-based reading instruction.

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