Dive Brief:

• Wyoming education committee will meet Thursday to discuss tensions over the current structure of the state's education department.  
• Currently, the state's governor appoints its Board of Education and the public elects its superintendent. These contrasting paths to power have resulted in a fractured decision-making environment.  
• The group has already met before to discuss these tensions. In April, it decided to create a task force to analyze the control of education in the state. 

Dive Insight:

Compounding Wyoming's leadership issues is the fact that, earlier this year, elected-superintendent Cindy Hill had to be re-appointed by the state Supreme Court. Gov. Matt Mead had ousted her last year, bringing in an appointed official to replace her.  

Finding the right way for a state's education department to be run is near impossible, as every state does it differently.