Brian Schroeder (Republican)

P.O. Box 1723
Casper, Wyoming 82602
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A sixteen-year veteran of teaching with public and private school administration experience, I am ready to help Wyoming lead the nation in education. Serving as Wyoming’s Superintendent of Public Instruction since January 2022, I have proven myself to be an advocate for parents and against indoctrination. I believe that the purpose of education is simple: to learn to think.

After graduating from high school, I went on to college to study for the ministry. After graduating from college, my immediate plans changed when a teaching position at a small parochial school in California opened up.

While in California, I fell in love with classroom teaching, and became hooked for the next 15 years, eventually becoming the principal of a small school in my hometown of Fort Atkinson. I earned a Masters degree in professional counseling during this time as well.

After 15 years of teaching and serving as a school principal, I went into family & youth work with teenage victims of abuse and neglect.

Prior to accepting Governor Gordon's appoint to serve as State Superintendent of Public Instruction in February 2022, I served as head of school at Veritas Academy in Cody, a private, classical Christian school.

Most recently, I have been serving as Superintendent, fighting for parents, for school choice, and against indoctrination.

I have earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Pastoral Studies, Theology & Speech from Maranatha Baptist University, and a Masters in Professional Counseling from Liberty University.

I served as a volunteer football coach from 2003 to 2009, served in pastoral ministry for several years, and lead Veritas Acadmy in Cody, Wyoming.

I am running to be Wyoming's Superintendent of Public Instruction because I believe that with the right leadership, Wyoming can lead the nation in education. There is something deep in Wyoming's DNA is independence and a tendency to think for ourselves. Since serving in this position for a few short months, I have seen Wyoming families stand up to the predations of the federal government- whether it be Critical Race Theory, radical gender ideology, or the use of federal funds to coerce our state, and I am ready to fight with and for Wyoming parents.

Prior to serving as Superintendent of Public Instruction, I was the head of a private classical Christian school in Cody. I come from a background of over a decade of teaching experience and 14 1/2 years of counseling experience. As a student, parent, and educator, I have the experience to lead Wyoming to ground education in its timeless purpose (to learn to think), to remind parents that they are the owners of our schools, to take care of and support our teachers, to help protect the philosophical integrity of the classroom, and to encourage the political will needed to begin breaking our financial co-dependence on the federal government.

My top priorities are simple: put parents back in charge of education, remove indoctrination from our classrooms, and return to the true purpose of education: to learn to think.

We must protect and preserve local control and parental authority. There is no source of power more local than that which comes from parents. Therefore, we serve, and must listen closely to, the parents. This is why I strongly support charter schools and other school choice options.

Critical Race Theory is a marxist ideology rooted in the idea that the United States is fundamentally and systematically racist and therefore must be torn down and rebuilt. I will fight to prevent this anti-American and discriminatory thinking from infiltrating our classrooms, our teacher education programs, and our administration buildings by supporting legislative efforts to limit it. I will work to create a culture from the Wyoming Department of Education that promotes American exceptionalism while acknowledging the full history of our nation without undermining its historic founding principles.

Wyoming is at a crossroads. Will we drink the kool-aid and follow other states down the path of ideologically driven education, or will we remain independent, returning to the true purpose of education? The purpose of education with our students, in a nutshell, can be summed up in four words:  to learn to think.  That has been the purpose of education for over a thousand years.