Family Values and Education
Wyoming is a unique place – it represents the best of what America stands for. Our values prioritize faith and family. Parents must be highly involved in the education of their children and education should be laser-focused on the priorities of reading, writing and arithmetic, leaving other social issues to be discussed by parents at the time they determine is appropriate. I am committed to fighting for Wyoming parents and their children. I have, and will continue, to advocate for the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, for religious freedom, and against woke ideology.
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Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R-WY) applauded the announcement that Wyoming would receive more than $205 million for fiscal year 2026 through the Rural Health Transformation Program, which Rep. Hageman and Congressional Republicans created this summer in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), also known as the Working Families Tax Cut. Additional funding will follow in the subsequent years.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced the Parental Rights Relief Act to give parents and eligible students a private right of action to enforce their rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA). This bill requires the Department of Education to expeditiously resolve complaints within 90 days.
Representative Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., is leading the charge against the infiltration of leftist ideologies within the federal government through the Anti-Woke Caucus. Established in 2023 by then-Representative Jim Banks of Indiana, now a senator, the caucus aims to dismantle the pervasive influence of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and other progressive initiatives that gained traction during the previous administration.
Washington, DC – Congresswomen Harriet Hageman (R-WY) and Mary Miller (R-IL) introduced the Parental Oversight and Educational Transparency Act to provide parents with clear and timely information about their children’s education and require direct parental consent for certain school activities.
My 101-year-old mother taught first through eighth grade in one-room schoolhouses in Montana, later moving to Wyoming to teach. She did not have today’s technologies available, but she successfully gave the children under her tutelage an excellent education that served them well throughout their lives.
Many of them became highly successful in business, agriculture and academia. And she was not alone, with thousands of teachers in both urban and rural settings being highly skilled at educating our students to excel and building this great nation in the process.
Washington, DC—Congresswoman Harriet Hageman and the Anti-Woke Caucus sent Acting Secretary of Education Denise Carter a letter identifying wasteful and divisive federal education programs that misallocated over $1 billion toward radical ideological programs including DEI initiatives, Critical Race Theory, and other race-based education schemes.