Colorado Leaders for Academic Success, or CLAS, is a Colorado nonprofit corporation and school-board support organization. The source layer now supports a bounded entity page, but not a broad theory of CLAS's role in Colorado education politics.
The strongest retained evidence covers legal/nonprofit identifiers, CLAS self-description, current public leadership listings, membership pricing and services, selected district records, and a set of reported or candidate relationship leads that still require primary records.
20238259702 as Colorado Leaders for Academic Success, entity type DNC, status Good Standing, jurisdiction CO, and formation date 2023-12-01.17240 Wagon Train Loop, Peyton, CO 80831, with registered agent Daniel Joseph Snowberger.2023-12-01 SOS articles of incorporation list Cortney Salt as registered agent and incorporator at 8455 Sweetgum Ter, Colorado Springs, CO 80920; list Joshua Miller at 5665 Vessey Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80908 as the individual causing the document to be delivered for filing; state that the nonprofit corporation had no voting members; and describe a board size range of three to nine persons without naming directors.2024-12-30 SOS periodic report lists Cortney Salt as registered agent and as the person causing that report to be delivered for filing.2026-01-30 SOS principal-office and registered-agent statements move the principal/registered-agent address to 17240 Wagon Train Loop, Peyton, CO 80831 and name Daniel J / Daniel Joseph Snowberger in the relevant filing roles. The 2026-02-24 periodic report confirms Daniel Joseph Snowberger as registered agent at the Peyton address.93-4660103 as Colorado Leaders for Academic Success. IRS/ProPublica-derived records show 501(c)(3)-type metadata, ruling month/date in November 2024, NTEE B99, and the Sweetgum Terrace Colorado Springs address.CLAS-controlled website captures describe services for school-board members and education leaders in governance, professional development, communications, legislative outreach, networking, policy, academic achievement, local control, and parental-rights topics.
The membership page lists:
$100/year;$1000/year;CLAS self-description is useful evidence of what CLAS publicly offered. It does not independently verify actual services delivered to any district.
CLAS-controlled website captures now add two narrow Miller-related public-event facts. The sponsor page includes a Miller Farmer Carlson / Miller Farmer Law logo image linking to millerfarmerlaw.com, and a retained 2024 policy-summit page lists Brad Miller as a speaker. Those facts support sponsor-page display and same-event speaker evidence only; they do not establish a CLAS engagement, legal representation, payment flow, or Brad Miller governance role.
Current CLAS-controlled about/leadership page captures list:
Registry/profile records also list Daniel Snowberger as current SOS registered agent and GuideStar principal officer. SOS filing images directly establish Cortney Salt as incorporator and registered agent in the 2023-12-01 articles and as registered agent / filing-delivery person in the 2024-12-30 periodic report. Wayback captures show cortney@clas.email as a public website contact state in 2024 and March 2025, and Chalkbeat reports Cortney Salt as CLAS's original executive director. The current source layer does not yet include a primary filing, board record, or CLAS internal record that establishes Cortney Salt's exact executive-director role dates.
The exact executive-director sequence and officer start dates remain unresolved because bylaws, board records, and internal records were not recovered. Joshua Miller's formation filing-delivery role is now directly supported by the SOS articles. A Vessey Road follow-up also resolves the professional/address bridge: the current Miller Farmer Law about page lists Joshua Miller as a partner, and the Colorado Business Entities current-row address screen confirms 5665 Vessey Rd as a Miller Farmer / Brad Miller law-practice address anchor. Brad Miller remains a candidate lead only because the inspected CLAS SOS filing images do not name him, and no retained CLAS engagement, invoice, correspondence, or board record names Miller Farmer or Brad in a CLAS role.
Primary or near-primary records currently retained:
$5,000.00 on 2024-10-11 and $750.00 on 2025-01-27.2024 agenda/archive membership-related action context, but exact vote, amount, and effective membership date remain unresolved.2025 CLAS event/conference attendance mentions and an August 14, 2025 official agenda/minutes/deck record for Dan Snowberger's CLAS presentation. The August agenda requested Consensus to become members of this organization, but the retained official records do not show a final D49 vote, consensus outcome, payment, contract, invoice, or membership effective date.4/1 vote on October 10, 2024 to join CLAS for $3,000; a November 20, 2025 motion/discussion and attachment to withdraw from CLAS, without a visible final CLAS withdrawal vote result in the retained text extraction; and a November 25, 2025 4/1 vote to rejoin CLAS.2024 board report about a CLAS presentation/dinner and a possible $3,000 added cost; a January 2025 superintendent research update and same-meeting discussion of Miller Farmer / Brad Miller as a legal-counsel or policy-template option; and a February 2025 follow-up conference call with John Graham of CLAS. The retained minutes do not show that Limon joined, paid, hired, or contracted with CLAS or Miller Farmer.Reported but not yet primary-verified in this pass:
2026 to cancel CLAS membership; the repo now has a board agenda/video-caption source layer for the action item and apparent cancellation motion, but not an official minute or settled vote count.See outputs/data/clas-member-district-verification-2026-05-20.md for the row-by-row member verification table.
| Source | Target | Mechanism | Flow | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cortney Salt | CLAS | incorporator and registered agent | legal formation / notice | direct evidence | 2023-12-01 SOS articles; 2024-12-30 SOS periodic report |
| Joshua Miller | CLAS | formation filing-delivery person | legal formation filing | direct evidence | 2023-12-01 SOS articles list Joshua Miller at 5665 Vessey Rd |
| Joshua Miller | Miller Farmer Carlson Law | partner listing | professional affiliation | direct evidence with self-description limit | current Miller Farmer Law about page |
Miller Farmer Carlson Law / 5665 Vessey Rd address lead |
CLAS | firm-personnel / address bridge through Joshua Miller | legal-service lead | candidate lead | CLAS filing image; current Miller Farmer page; Colorado Business Entities address screen |
Brad Miller / 5665 Vessey Rd address lead |
CLAS | address-match formation lead | unresolved | candidate lead | Brad Miller is not named in inspected CLAS SOS filing images; Vessey follow-up resolves the address as a Miller Farmer / Brad anchor and Joshua as a current MFC-listed partner |
| Daniel Joseph Snowberger | CLAS | registered agent | legal notice / registry contact | direct evidence | 2026-01-30 and 2026-02-24 SOS filings; Colorado SOS open-data row |
| Dan Snowberger | CLAS | executive director / principal officer | organizational authority | direct evidence | CLAS about page; GuideStar public profile |
| Mike Lynch / Mary Powell / Beth Suppes | CLAS | board-officer listings | organizational authority | direct evidence | CLAS about page self-description; independent filing still needed |
| ERBOCES | CLAS | check-register payments | money | direct evidence | ERBOCES retained check-register rows; service scope unresolved |
| Elizabeth School District | CLAS | agenda/action item | possible membership authority | direct evidence | Elizabeth district agenda/archive; vote/payment unresolved |
| District 49 board members | CLAS | event/conference attendance | attention / training capacity | direct evidence | District 49 minutes; membership/payment unresolved |
| District 49 | CLAS | presentation and requested membership consensus | institutional access / possible membership authority | direct evidence | District 49 August 14, 2025 agenda/minutes/deck; final outcome/payment unresolved |
| Delta 50J | CLAS | join and rejoin votes | membership authority / money | direct evidence | Delta 50J official minutes; withdrawal outcome and payment records unresolved |
| Montezuma-Cortez | CLAS | district-membership action item and cancellation motion/discussion | membership authority | direct evidence with ASR limit | MCSD agenda and official-channel caption capture; exact vote/original join/payment unresolved |
| Brush board members / Superintendent Cody | CLAS | scheduled conference attendance | attention / training capacity | direct evidence | Brush official district notice; membership/payment/vote unresolved |
| Colorado Springs School District 11 | CLAS | board-material handout inclusion | institutional access / possible membership consideration | direct evidence | D11 portal capture; no membership/payment/vote established |
| Mike Lynch | CLAS / Montezuma-Cortez | CLAS officer listing and MCSD board-context record | organizational authority / district governance lead | shared personnel | CLAS self-description plus MCSD portal/video context; do not infer coordination or control |
| CLAS | School Boards for Academic Excellence | member resources, summit speaker, reported affiliate | training/resources/legitimacy | direct evidence / reported relationship | CLAS website and Chalkbeat; formal affiliation unresolved |
| SBAE | Jordan Adams | curriculum review/audit service | curriculum content / training capacity | direct evidence | SBAE official source; CLAS-specific provider link unresolved |
| The Schuck Initiatives / The Schuck Foundation | CLAS | reported partial funding | money | reported relationship | Chalkbeat reporting; ProPublica resolves likely nonprofit identity only; grant/payment record not retained |
| Brad Miller | CLAS | reported formation-adjacent role | legal/policy network capacity | reported relationship / candidate lead | CTR/CPEW/LittleSis leads; inspected CLAS SOS filing images do not name Brad Miller |
| CLAS | Miller Farmer Carlson Law / Miller Farmer Law | sponsor-page logo and outbound link | legitimacy / attention / event-support lead | direct evidence with source-limit | CLAS-controlled sponsor page; amount, form, terms, and event mapping unresolved |
| CLAS | Brad Miller | 2024 policy-summit speaker listing | attention / legal-policy credibility / training capacity | same event / direct evidence for listing | CLAS-controlled 2024 policy-summit page; no officer/counsel/funder/controller role established |
| Limon RE-4J | CLAS / Miller Farmer Carlson Law | board discussion and conference-call follow-up | institutional access / possible service consideration | direct evidence | Limon official minutes; no approval/payment/hiring record captured |
The fuller relationship-lead matrix is in outputs/data/clas-relationship-lead-matrix-2026-05-20.md.
LittleSis-derived relationship and source-document metadata used in this pass is attributed to LittleSis and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. It is used only as a discovery/source-index layer, not as evidence of causality, control, coordination, sponsorship, influence, ownership, intent, or operational command.
5665 Vessey Rd match is now a firm-personnel / address bridge, not merely an address-only match, because the current Miller Farmer page lists Joshua as partner and current state open data confirms the address as a Miller Farmer / Brad anchor. It still should not be hardened into a Brad Miller role, Miller Farmer representation, CLAS client relationship, control, sponsorship, funding, or coordination claim without another direct source.2025 CLAS Conference supports the event, organizer, date, and Independence Institute venue, but the captured HTML and primary image do not name Miller Farmer, Brad Miller, or Joshua Miller.CLAS is ready for bounded entity maintenance and timeline-cue tracking. It is not yet ready for keystone treatment, a durable statewide network theory, or broad theme/concept expansion without a second pass focused on district records, CLAS governance records, funding documents, and formal affiliation records.
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