Academy District 20 is the district-level institution anchoring the repository's D20 conflict cluster, where school-board races, leaked-chat coordination, church outreach, candidate grooming, litigation, and Colorado parental-rights organizing recur.
In this repository, Academy District 20 matters as the institutional site where several already-compiled Colorado education threads meet: Derrick Wilburn, Advocates for D20 Kids, Aaron Salt, Colorado Springs church outreach, Patriot Academy-adjacent candidate development, and later anti-SLAPP litigation. The current corpus supports a narrow district page for that conflict-defined role. It does not yet support a full district history, administrative profile, or comprehensive account of district governance beyond the source cluster already preserved in wiki/.
- Role or function: public school district
- Scope: Colorado Springs-area school governance and school-board conflict
- Known aliases: Academy School District 20, ASD20, D20
- Relevant affiliations: Aaron Salt, Advocates for D20 Kids, Bernadette Guthrie, Derrick Wilburn, Springs Opportunity Fund, Truth & Liberty, Patriot Academy
- Direct official board-record layer in current corpus: retained agendas and available minutes from
2026-01-08 through 2026-03-12, including special meetings, regular meetings, a study session, and a spring retreat
- Additional governance-process detail in current corpus: the January 8 study session includes calendar planning, district-dashboard review, and legal-services update or budget discussion, while the March 12 spring retreat focuses on communication planning, reflection on the February behavior study session, graduation options, a board vision-statement update, and rules of engagement
- Example retained official-record issues: the March 12 packet preserves annual monitoring of New Summit Charter Academy, social-studies textbook adoption, a personal-financial-literacy graduation requirement tied to
HB 25-1192 and updated for the class of 2030, multi-year calendar adoption, reassignment of the board assistant treasurer role from Becky Allan to Derrick Wilburn, and authorization of up to $4.4 million for device replenishment and the district one-to-one device program
- Packet-level operational detail in current corpus: New Summit's annual report describes board turnover, continued use of the district's insured special-services model, network modernization, and conservative enrollment planning, while the device proposal lays out a phased high-school-first Chromebook migration and a centralized tech-support restructuring model
- Additional official-record layer in current corpus: a
2025 school-board petition batch preserves the filed seven-candidate at-large slate, while January and February 2026 CORA and email records add direct documentary support for the district's legal-services selection scrutiny and one Eddie Waldrep library-book challenge
- Additional administrative and facilities layer in current corpus: separate
2024 to 2026 records now preserve a board legal-counsel RFQ, the district procurement policy, spoofing-related communications-response emails, meeting-security planning documents, and Rockrimmon moisture or mold assessment and remediation paperwork
- Additional CTR board-governance layer in current corpus: reporting now explicitly places current or recent board figures
Aaron Salt, Tom LaValley, Nicole Konz, Amy Shandy, Susan Payne, and Derrick Wilburn inside the D20 race, Discord, church-outreach, anti-trans-policy, and post-election sequence
- D49-coalition layer in current corpus: CTR reporting preserved Brad Miller's circulation of the D49 sports-policy letter to D20 board members, and the current
District 49 v. Sullivan docket later lists Academy District 20 among the remaining plaintiffs objecting after the CHSAA defendants' dismissal
- Important context: the current page is grounded in the district's role inside a bounded culture-war and parental-rights cluster rather than a neutral institutional overview
- Recent governance marker in current corpus: a
2025-03 local-news report says board president Aaron Salt stepped down and resigned effective 2025-06-01, with Amy Shandy becoming president and Derrick Wilburn becoming treasurer
- Additional parent-accountability marker in current corpus: the new Bernadette Guthrie pass shows one explicit D20 committee role on the district-accountability side, with CPR identifying Guthrie as a DAC member who used open records and public argument to challenge the district's
2024 bond process and charter-school allocations
¶ Evidence and source basis
wiki/summaries/academy-district-20-facilities-safety-and-administrative-records-2023-2026.md: adds the remaining official D20 administrative layer, including the board legal-counsel RFQ, procurement-policy context, meeting-security planning material, Rockrimmon IAQ and remediation paperwork, and lower-context facilities or email artifacts that should be interpreted conservatively.wiki/summaries/registered-school-district-board-agendas-and-minutes-april-2026-source-cluster.md: adds the first direct official D20 board-record slice in the current repo, covering agendas and available minutes from January through March 2026 and now incorporating the full March 12 packet for governance, curriculum, charter-monitoring, and technology-spending detail.wiki/summaries/academy-district-20-cora-and-candidate-petition-records-2025-2026.md: adds direct official paperwork for the 2025 at-large candidate slate, the January 2026 legal-services CORA request, the Miller Farmer engagement letter, and the February 2026 Waldrep reconsideration thread.raw/board-materials/academy-district-20/2026-03-12/49170.txt: newly retained March 12 packet sidecar that sharpens New Summit's annual report, the personal-financial-literacy graduation proposal, and the phased device-migration plan beyond the agenda shell.wiki/summaries/academy-district-20-manufactured-outrage-and-candidate-network.md: main cluster summary tying together campaign rhetoric, leaked-chat coordination, church outreach, training infrastructure, and litigation.wiki/summaries/brad-miller-identity-career-and-client-footprint-primary-source-cluster.md: adds the narrower D49-linked sports-policy coalition layer by preserving CTR reporting that Miller circulated the D49 letter to D20 board members and by noting the current District 49 v. Sullivan docket's inclusion of Academy District 20 among the remaining plaintiffs.raw/articles/2026-04-05T005616-0600 D20 Board Member Derrick Wilburn Tells Parent of Disabled Student to Leave the District - Fits Longstanding Pattern of Intimidation.md: preserves later reporting that frames D20 as an intimidation and governance-conflict site around Wilburn.raw/articles/2026-04-05T005646-0600 D20 Candidate Cynthia Halverson’s Patriot Academy Training A Closer Look at the Network Behind Her Campaign.md: preserves candidate-pipeline reporting connecting a D20 race to Patriot Academy and Colorado Springs Christian-right infrastructure.raw/articles/2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-57391-lawsuit-alleges-d20-board-candidate-defrauded-military-health-insurance.md: adds a reported candidate-controversy layer around Amy Shandy, including endorsements and Springs Opportunity Fund support in the same 2023 D20 election environment.raw/articles/2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-58252-its-make-believe-colorado-gop-hears-from-authors-of-monument-academys-transgender-policy.md: adds a narrower public-policy marker showing Aaron Salt at a GOP school-policy event and stating D20 had no plan at that point to copy Monument Academy's transgender-student policy.raw/articles/2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-58482-2023-review-the-colorado-times-recorders-school-board-coverage.md: usefully restates the D20 board-race layer by naming Tom LaValley and Nicole Konz as sitting board members in the leaked Discord coverage and by summarizing the Wilburn/Shandy church-outreach and spending subclusters.raw/articles/2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-70752-co-springs-board-of-education-candidates-running-on-trans-sports-bans.md: adds a later board-policy marker in which recently appointed board member Susan Payne and candidate Eddie Waldrep publicly backed anti-trans-sports policy.raw/articles/2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-73147-school-board-candidates-field-culture-war-questions-at-co-springs-forum.md and raw/articles/2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-74343-school-board-roundup-who-won-who-lost-and-where-its-too-close-to-call.md: preserve the reported conservative-vs-moderate slate framing and the later election-outcome layer for the 2025 D20 races.raw/articles/2026-04-12T024317-0600 Academy School District 20 Board President stepping down effective June 1.md: adds a narrower but useful governance update on the Salt resignation and the board's reported officer reorganization.wiki/summaries/bernadette-guthrie-and-academy-district-20-source-cluster.md: adds a bounded parent-accountability layer spanning the 2021 school-board races, 2022 anti-book-panic public comments, 2024 DAC-linked bond scrutiny, and the distinction between Guthrie's conflict with the district and her conflict with Wilburn.
| Document title |
Originally ingested |
Status |
Duplicate check date |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Mar 12 2026 | 2026-04-13 | Unchanged | 2026-04-16 |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Feb 12 2026 minutes HTML fallback | 2026-04-13 | Unchanged | 2026-04-14 |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Feb 12 2026 | 2026-04-13 | Unchanged | 2026-04-19 |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Mar 12 2026 | 2026-04-14 | Unchanged | 2026-04-16 |
| Board of Education Special Meeting - Apr 23 2026 Agenda HTML | 2026-04-18 | Unchanged | 2026-04-18 |
| Board of Education Special Meeting - Apr 23 2026 Packet | 2026-04-18 | Unchanged | 2026-04-18 |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Apr 23 2026 Agenda HTML | 2026-04-18 | Unchanged | 2026-04-18 |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Apr 23 2026 Packet | 2026-04-18 | Unchanged | 2026-04-18 |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Apr 23 2026 | 2026-04-18 | Unchanged | 2026-04-20 |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Apr 23 2026 packet | 2026-04-18 | Unchanged | 2026-04-19 |
| Board of Education Special Meeting - Apr 23 2026 | 2026-04-18 | Unchanged | 2026-04-19 |
| Board of Education Special Meeting - Apr 23 2026 | 2026-04-18 | Unchanged | 2026-04-20 |
| Board of Education Regular Meeting - Feb 12 2026 | 2026-04-19 | Unchanged | 2026-04-20 |
- The current corpus supports a district page for the D20 conflict cluster, but not yet a broader institutional profile covering district leadership, policy history, or ordinary district operations outside the current controversy set.
- The current source base is strong enough to show repeated D20 recurrence across multiple articles, but many claims in the broader cluster still depend on reporting, partial chat exports, and commentary rather than a complete district-record package.
- The current corpus now has a bounded official D20 board-record slice for early 2026, but it still lacks a complete official packet archive for the earlier
2022 to 2025 controversy sequence and for fully reconciling older board membership or appointment changes without depending on reporting.
- The current corpus now also has a narrow official candidate-paperwork and legal-counsel layer for late
2025 to early 2026, but it still does not settle the full district-side decision chain behind the legal-services solicitation or every candidate's later organizational ties.
- The current corpus now also has a partial facilities, safety, and administrative record layer, but several documents in that batch remain image-heavy, duplicated, or too context-light to support stronger claims without a later targeted pass.
- The March 12, 2026 packet is now retained, but the broader D20 controversy sequence still lacks a comparable official packet archive for many of the earlier
2022 to 2025 fights that dominate the reporting layer.
- School Board Candidates Field Culture War Questions at CO Springs Forum
- School Board Roundup: Who Won, Who Lost, and Where it’s Too Close to Call
- DAVIS: A Strategic Evolution in the Fight for Colorado Schools
- Board of Education Special Meeting - Jan 08 2026 Minutes
- Board of Education Regular Meeting - Jan 08 2026 Minutes
- Board of Education Study Session - Jan 08 2026 Minutes
- Board of Education Spring Retreat - Mar 12 2026
- Board of Education Study Sessions - Mar 12 2026
- Board of Education Regular Meeting - Mar 12 2026
- 49170.pdf
- Special Board Meeting - January 28, 2026 Minutes
- Regular Board Meeting - March 4, 2026
- 68856.pdf
- 70872.html
- 70013.html
- 71962.html
- 71963.pdf
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Oct 09 2025 Minutes
- Minutes October 22, 2025
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Jan 16 2026 Minutes
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Mar 12 2026
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Apr 09 2026
- 24018.pdf
- 24919.html
- 24920.pdf
- 14596.html
- 14597.pdf
- 32620.html
- 32810.pdf
- Weld RE-4 Google Docs board-material recapture batch
- 2026-01-08-special-meeting-agenda-1n9ka4ua.txt
- 2026-01-08-special-meeting-minutes-1jjm1h0u.txt
- 2026-01-09-retreat-agenda-15dh06qv.txt
- 2026-01-09-retreat-minutes-1xr6mk93.txt
- 2026-01-12-regular-meeting-agenda-1hlr2w97.txt
- 2026-01-12-regular-meeting-minutes-1tu9wwge.txt
- 2026-02-02-work-session-agenda-1ucp1yli.txt
- 2026-02-02-special-meeting-minutes-1tom0qge.txt
- 2026-02-09-regular-meeting-agenda-1osjvk0y.txt
- 2026-02-09-regular-meeting-minutes-12wljf9h.txt
- 2026-03-02-special-meeting-agenda-1bzykuk.txt
- 2026-03-02-special-meeting-minutes-12f-84es.txt
- 2026-03-09-regular-meeting-agenda-1b5zdhje.txt
- 2026-04-06-special-meeting-agenda-16temi3b.txt
- Special Board of Education Meeting - Jan 06 2026 Minutes
- Special Board of Education Meeting - Jan 26 2026 Minutes
- Special Board of Education Meeting - Jan 30 2026 Minutes
- Regular Board of Education Meeting - Feb 19 2026 Minutes
- 17902.pdf
- Board of Education Work Session - Apr 09 2026
- 18323.html
- 18324.pdf
- Special Board Meeting 02-18-26 Minutes
- Special Board Meeting 02-23-26
- Regular Board Meeting 03-11-26 Minutes
- Special Board Meeting 03-12-26 Minutes
- Special Board Meeting 03-16-26 Minutes
- Regular Board Meeting 04-08-26
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives home
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives about us
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives nonprofit explorer profile
- Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives full filing 2022
- POCC Internship home
- POCC Internship about us
- Charis Bible College home
- Charis Bible College Practical Government School
- Charis Bible College catalog 2023-2024
- Church Voter Guides D20 2023 school board voter guide
- Elect Derrick Wilburn TRACER candidate detail
- Truth and Liberty Derrick Wilburn Are Black Voters Shifting Conservative
- Spreaker Derrick Wilburn Changing Perspectives with Truth
- Spreaker Derrick Wilburn on Black Conservatives and More
- Spreaker The Truth and Liberty Show with Richard Harris Bishop E W Jackson and Derrick Wilburn
- State GOP vice chair Derrick Wilburn says he won't be seeking top party post
- What does it mean to be a Black conservative in Colorado?
- Ep. 4 - Back to Our FAITH, Back to Winning (Derrick Wilburn)
- Student Led Academy District 20 - Board of Education Candidate Forum
- Lawlessness Exposed with Dave Illingworth and Derrick Wilburn
- Franchised Outrage: Porn Panic, the Trans Athlete Pivot, and the Machinery of Manufactured Fear
- Dr. Bill Sawvel’s Dissertation Reveals the Playbook Behind His Book Bans
- Eddie Waldrep's Interview Raises Alarms About His Understanding of Public Education
- D20 Board Member Derrick Wilburn Tells Parent of Disabled Student to Leave the District - Fits Longstanding Pattern of Intimidation
- D20 Candidate Cynthia Halverson’s Patriot Academy Training: A Closer Look at the Network Behind Her Campaign
- Lawsuit Alleges D20 Board Candidate Defrauded Military Health Insurance
- ‘It’s Make-Believe,’ Colorado GOP Hears from Authors of Monument Academy’s Transgender Policy
- 2023 Review: the Colorado Times Recorder’s School Board Coverage
- CO Springs Board of Education Candidates Running on Trans Sports Bans
- Say No to Colorado Leaders for Academic Success & School Boards For Academic Excellence
- D20 board director describes tenure on school board as a 'spiritual battle' at Christian event
- D20 school board quote triggers separation of church and state controversy
- Academy School District 20 Board President stepping down effective June 1
- Why you're getting so many political texts, and how they're giving candidates an advantage
- Daniel Fenlason
- D11 Momentum
- Superintendent is retiring after Colorado school board president urged parents to search schools for objectionable material
- Fire-Breathing Lesbians & Satan-Worshipping S.O.Bs: The Private Chat Logs of a Christian Conservative School District Group
- Leadership Institute Training: Action Items for Newly Conservative School Boards
- Seducing the Bride of Christ
- Dark Money and the School Board Industrial Complex
- Truth & Liberty | Promoting True Reformation Of Nations
- Our Team
- How the left treats our poor, sitting duck school board members.
- The school board saga continues
- Local school board nastiness - Installment #3
- School board saga takes a BIZARRE turn
- Engaged: Bringing Answers to the Darkness
- 10834.pdf
- 10836.pdf
- 9863.pdf
- 96666eef-6951-4cf9-b3cf-a4a59d6e2a21.html
- ae85cf2b-39e5-423d-b481-7da90790f888.html
- Invisible Hand: The Man Behind Colorado Schools' Efforts to Ban Trans Athletes
- DAVIS: The Plot to Take a Local School District to the Supreme Court