This pass preserves current first-party board pages for Parents Challenge and the Colorado Charter School Institute and compares those rosters to the existing repository and D11 Kumu graph.
The strongest new graph value is not that every board member has a D11-specific role. It is the person-level cross-over layer: Deborah Hendrix links Parents Challenge, CSI, and the existing Legacy Institute record; Ross Izard links CSI to the already-retained Xiphos / school-choice lobbying layer; Brenda Bautsch Dickhoner links CSI to Ready Colorado; Mike Miles links Parents Challenge to Third Future Schools; and Stephen Schuck / Steven Everson strengthen the Parents Challenge / Schuck civic-philanthropic lane.
| board profile | repo status before this pass | graph handling | claim limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joyce H. Schuck | Mentioned in Parents Challenge / Schuck context; not a graph node | Add as listed Parents Challenge board-profile / co-founder node | Listed with 1927-2021; do not treat as a current active vote |
| Stephen M. Schuck | Existing graph node and Parents Challenge entity context | Update existing node / edge to carry founder and board-profile evidence | Does not prove organization-level campaign coordination |
| Joe Woodford | No meaningful repo hit | Add Parents Challenge board-profile node only | No D11-specific role found in this pass |
| Steven L. Everson | Existing Schuck Foundation filing mention; no graph node | Add Parents Challenge board-profile node; note Schuck Foundation / Schuck-company context | Do not infer Schuck Foundation grant flow to Parents Challenge from board service alone |
| Kim Shugart | No meaningful repo hit | Add Parents Challenge board-profile node only | No D11-specific role found in this pass |
| Mike Miles | Existing Third Future Schools entity, but no person node | Add Parents Challenge board-profile node and Third Future Schools founder / CEO-history edge | Does not make Third Future Schools a Parents Challenge project |
| Robert Gardner | Search results mostly unrelated Cory Gardner / Robert Mueller hits | Add Parents Challenge board-profile node only | School-choice / charter-law profile language is not a D11 role |
| Lisa Jesse | No meaningful repo hit | Add Parents Challenge board-profile node only | No D11-specific role found in this pass |
| Dr. Regina Lewis | No meaningful repo hit | Add Parents Challenge board-profile node only | No D11-specific role found in this pass |
| board member | CSI page role detail | repo status before this pass | graph handling | claim limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Karow | Board member; Governor appointment; term 2 ends July 1, 2028 | No meaningful repo hit | Add CSI board node only | Prior Ross Montessori service is charter-sector context, not D11 evidence |
| Brenda Bautsch Dickhoner | Board Chair; Commissioner appointment; term 2 ends January 1, 2027 | Existing Ready Colorado entity context | Add person node, CSI board-chair edge, and Ready Colorado CEO edge | Ready Colorado adjacency is not proof of CSI action on D11 |
| Deborah Hendrix | Board member; Governor appointment; term 2 ends July 1, 2027; Executive Director of Parents Challenge | Existing Parents Challenge and Legacy Institute evidence | Add person node with CSI board, Parents Challenge executive-director, and Legacy Institute board/support-list edges | Does not prove funding, control, or D11 board coordination |
| Damion LeeNatali | Board member; Governor appointment; term 1 ends July 1, 2026 | No meaningful repo hit | Add CSI board node only | Gary Community Ventures context is not developed here |
| Liz Howell | Board member; profile ties her to CMU Tech / Colorado Mesa University | No meaningful repo hit | Add CSI board node only | No D11-specific role found in this pass |
| Kenny Smith | Board Treasurer / Finance Committee Chair; Governor appointment; term 2 ends July 1, 2027 | No meaningful repo hit | Add CSI board node only | No D11-specific role found in this pass |
| Nicholas Hernandez | Board Vice Chair; Governor appointment; term 2 ends July 1, 2026 | No meaningful repo hit | Add CSI board node only | No D11-specific role found in this pass |
| Ross Izard | Board Secretary / Performance Management Committee Chair; Commissioner appointment; term 2 ends July 1, 2028 | Existing Xiphos / Ross Izard lobbying page | Split Ross into person-level graph node and connect to Xiphos | No direct D11 / Xiphos record found |
| Nicholas Thompson | Board member; Governor appointment; term 1 ends July 1, 2026 | No meaningful repo hit | Add CSI board node only | No D11-specific role found in this pass |
| source node | target node | tie type | mechanism | evidence strength | claim limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Hendrix | Parents Challenge | executive director | CSI profile and existing Parents Challenge / Legacy source layer | direct | Does not prove Parents Challenge funding or D11 coordination |
| Deborah Hendrix | Colorado Charter School Institute | board service | CSI current board page and profile | direct | Does not prove CSI action connected to Legacy or Parents Challenge |
| Deborah Hendrix | Legacy Institute | board / support-list overlap | Existing Legacy board and D11 application evidence | direct for retained records | Current role dates and authority remain bounded by source date |
| Ross Izard | Colorado Charter School Institute | board service | CSI current board page and profile | direct | Does not create a D11 / Xiphos relationship |
| Ross Izard | Xiphos Strategies | founder / principal | CSI profile and existing SOS lobbying source layer | direct | Client roster is not proof of coordination or control |
| Brenda Bautsch Dickhoner | Ready Colorado | president / CEO | CSI profile and existing Ready Colorado page | direct | Does not prove Ready Colorado influence over CSI decisions |
| Mike Miles | Third Future Schools | founder / CEO-history context | Parents Challenge profile | direct | Does not make Third Future Schools a Parents Challenge program |
| Stephen Schuck | Parents Challenge | founder / board profile | Parents Challenge current board and profile pages | direct | Does not prove campaign-finance coordination |
The D11 Kumu JSON should include all current roster names as person nodes because the user asked for complete board-member coverage. Edges should be limited to direct first-party board-service, founder / executive, or existing repo-supported organizational roles. Nodes without D11-specific relationships should remain lower-importance and should not receive speculative links.