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Campbell 'recapture' payments total almost $1 billion

GILLETTE — It was pretty much par for the course for Campbell County School District trustees in approving the district’s 2019 fiscal year budgets.

Except for one thing — $11.3 million of one thing.

That’s the amount of recapture money the Campbell County School District will send to the state of Wyoming in 2019, about a 301 percent increase from a year ago.

It’s something the school district has...