Wyoming’s legislator behind the controversial education bills, which is now facing a boycott of his business with Fish Fry – Wyoming News now

Cheyenne, Wyo. – Republican representative of Laramie Ocean Andrew supported the controversial bills on education in the legislation of Wyoming at this session – opponents of the bills call non -constitutional, irresponsible and dangerous.

These include a measure that would create a universal school voucher program that has already passed the house. Another would allow the areas to hire teachers, administrators and others without board certification. Measuring supporters say they will lead to more parental control over education and will help the shortage of teaching staff. But critics support the bills will erode the Wyoming State Schools System.

The House Mujority Whip is now faced with discounts in his personal life, as critics are calling for a boycott of his business, the hook that visits numerous cities of Wyoming.

As Wyofile reports, efforts are distributed on Facebook, where Wyoming residents call on others not to protect Andrew’s food trucks due to his legislative actions.

“Please only think about his support when he begins to support the Wyoming teachers,” insists a publication by Erin McColi Haines, whose profile photo is an icon that says “I stand with Wyoming teachers.”

The goal of public anger is the normal course of the business for a legislator, Andrew told Wyofile on Monday. “However, it is a pity that this particular copy is derived from such misinformation both the function and the intention of the bill.”

He refers to a teacher certification bill, which received a strong discount.

Andrew defended his bills for education as reflecting the will of people during a broad interview with Capitol reporters on Friday. He cited a study in which nearly 60% of the respondents said they thought Wyoming’s education was heading in the wrong direction.

“That’s important,” Andrew said.

“This session, I dumped many different ideas,” he continued. “I do not claim that they were all great ideas, but I think there were many things that had to be talked about in the space of public education. Many of this is related to the bureaucracy and management of how we manage public education.”

The boycott is by no means the first time politics has influenced the way people spend their dollars. And while it is not clear whether or how much effort will affect Andrew’s grocery truck revenue, it shows that his legislative efforts have struck a nerve.

Choosing a school and certification of teachers

Andrew has been from Washington, but has lived in Wyoming for more than a decade. He was first elected to represent the district district 46 in 2021. After four years, he was erected to the role of a whip of the majority house and also chaired the Chamber of Education Committee.

The Andrew House Bill, the Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act, will set up a program to give Wyoming’s families up to $ 7,000 to a student for non-public school expenses for the K-12. This would do this by expanding a new savings account for savings accounts qualified in 2024. It also eliminates the requirement to take the participating students throughout the country or similar national academic assessments.

Critics claim that HB 199 is likely to violate Wyoming’s Constitution, which prohibits the state from giving money to persons “except for the necessary support to the poor.” It also prohibits the use of public funds for private or vaporchial schools.

The opposition to the rage of legislators and voters failed to slow down the progress of the bill. Last week last week after three days of intense debate. Caucus Freedom illustrates his power of voting, defeating almost all 18 attempts to amend the bill before accepting it.

Andrew is trying to achieve a universal choice system, he said, and his intention is not to take away from the system of public schools.

“I think what I would like to see is an education in which everyone has a choice exactly what they want, and any of these elections is a good choice,” he said.

Change is never easy, he added, and this is especially true in education.

Another bill of Andrew, who has caught Flak, House Bill 100, “K-12 Non-certified staff”, will allow areas and management board hiring tips to hire teachers, administrators and others without certification or permit issued by the Council for Professional teaching standards. This will require employees without such certification to receive a background check.

This bill did not receive as much grip; He was referred to the Education Committee on January 24 and has not seen any action ever since. However, many in the field of education have focused on the bill, saying that it threatens education by granting the strictness of employees to teach.

“What is spread on social media is that I want anyone who is 18 and can go back to background to teach,” Andrew told Wyofile on Monday. “This is extremely far from the truth. This bill would essentially allow school councils to assume the obligation to certify independently.”

If they decide to do so, he added, it can help the areas that struggle to fill in educational roles, find “qualified persons through alternative channels”.

Fish and chips

Andrew started the Cook in 2016, when he was still a student at Wyoming University with business partner Hunter Anderson. He started as a single food truck that sells fish and chips, prepared with a linear wild fever (the father of Andrew Captain of a commercial fishing boat in Alaska) and grew into a franchise company serving 20 stations. The business has 558,000 followers on Facebook.

In Wyoming, the patrons can find him in a rotating schedule – from Rowlins to Casper, Jackson and beyond.

But some Wyoming customers take their money elsewhere – and encourage others. Casper’s resident Jane Ifland is one such face.

She called Andrew’s legislation “catastrophically harmful to the public school system” and said the concept of granting teaching standards is offensive to those who have spent years of education in pedagogy.

“These are the moves of someone who does not understand what the purpose of public education is,” she told Wyofile.