Campbell County School District will cut more than $4 million from its budget for fiscal year 2022, district officials told trustees in a special meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Wednesday also was the Wyoming Legislature’s final session in which the education funding bill, House Bill 173, needed to be reconciled between the two houses to address a $300 million shortfall in K-12 education funding.
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