§ 21-16-301 — Generally

Wyoming § 21-16-301

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 21: Education
• Ch. 16: HIGHER EDUCATION GENERALLY
• Art. 3: INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR EDUCATION

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The Interstate Compact for Education is hereby enacted into law
and entered into by this state with all states legally joining
herein in the form substantially as follows:
COMPACT FOR EDUCATION
Article I
(a) It is the purpose of this compact to:
(i) Establish and maintain close cooperation and
understanding among executive, legislative, professional,
educational and lay leadership on a nationwide basis at the
state and local levels.
(ii) Provide a forum for the discussion, development,
crystallization and recommendation of public policy alternatives
in the field of education.
(iii) Provide a clearinghouse of information on
matters relating to educational programs and how they are being
met in different places throughout the nation, so that the
executive and legislative branches of state government and of
local communities may have ready access to the experience and
record of the entire country, and so that both lay and
professional groups in the field of education may have
additional avenues for the sharing of experience and the
interchange of ideas in the formation of public policy in
education.
(iv) Facilitate the improvement of state and local
educational systems so that all of them will be able to meet
adequate and desirable goals in a society which requires
continuous qualitative and quantitative advance in educational
opportunities, methods and facilities.
(b) It is the policy of this compact to encourage and
promote local and state initiative in the development,
maintenance, improvement and administration of educational
systems and institutions in a manner which will accord with the
needs and advantages of diversity among localities and states.
(c) The party states recognize that each of them has an
interest in the quality and quantity of education furnished in
each of the other states, as well as in the excellence of its
own educational systems and institutions, because of the highly
mobile character of individuals within the nation, and because
the products and services contributing to the health, welfare
and economic advancement of each state are supplied in
significant part by persons educated in other states.
Article II
As used in the compact, "state" means a state, territory or
possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Article III
(a) The education commission of the states, hereinafter
called "the commission", is hereby established. The commission
shall consist of seven (7) members representing each party
state. One (1) of such members shall be the governor; two (2)
shall be members of the state legislature selected by its
respective houses and serving in such manner as the legislature
may determine, Wyoming's legislative members are to be appointed
one (1) by the president of the senate and one (1) by the
speaker of the house; and four (4) shall be appointed by the
governor and may be removed by the governor as provided in W.S.