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In 2001, theWyoming Supreme Court ruled in State v. Campbell County that every Wyoming K-12 student has constitutional protection for a fair, complete, and equal education appropriate for the times. This protection results in the universal availability of a "basket of goods," or a set of educational deliverables guaranteed to each student independent of the resources of individual school districts. In 2019, an executive action by Governor Matt Mead added to the deliverables "the use and understanding of computer science." His executive action initiated a systemin which universal computer science became available to everyWyoming K-12 student by the 2022-2023 school year. The purpose of this paper is to use archival researchmethods through the lens of systems theory to explore the process of conceiving and implementing universal K- 12 computer science education inWyoming by considering the research question: How does systems theory provide amodel for understandingWyoming's universal K-12 computer science education delivery? Systems theory has been used to study organizational components and to analyze engineering systems since the 1950s, and a review of the literature indicates thatmany social systems can be understood through systems theory. However, using systems theory to study educational systems has not been studied in a comprehensive manner, resulting in a literature gap. This study analyzes how Wyoming's universal K-12 computer science delivery acts as a system. This paper provides recommendations fromexisting conditions to full availability, based on autopoiesis (the ability of a systemtomaintain itself) and summum bonum, or the ultimate good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
