A public-school advocacy group and eight school districts are urging the Wyoming Supreme Court not to stall on a lower court’s order requiring the Legislature to pay for mental health counselors in elementary schools, more money for school lunches, more computers in schools and other goods.

The Wyoming Education Association and the school districts on Thursday filed an opposition to the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office’s earlier request: The state had asked its high court to pause Laramie County District Court Judge Peter Froelicher’s Feb. 26 order, which places many new demands on the way lawmakers fund the state’s schools.

Froelicher had ordered the legislature to supply school resource officers across public schools; mental health counselors in elementary schools; one technolog

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