Colorado Military Academy is included in the El Paso County charter / innovation inventory as a current CDE charter node. The official district or authorizer field used for this seed page is Colorado Springs 11; the listed city is Colorado Springs; the grade span is PK-12. CDE 2025-26 workbook pupil count: 832.
- Source-grounded role: charter-school or charter-application node for semantic matching against D11 charter, authorizer, innovation-zone, and alternative-governance patterns.
- Current source limit: CDE 2025-26 charter flag; D11 charter-page list.
- Claim limit: this seed page records official inventory presence or D11 release / approval status. It does not by itself prove coordination, control, profit extraction, sponsorship, or policy influence.
¶ D11 authorization and financial disclosure
- D11 approved Resolution 2025-48 and Contract C2026-0010 on June 11, 2025,
making CMA a D11-authorized charter from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030.
- The contract assigns CMA timely public financial-transparency posting,
submission of board-approved budgets and approving resolutions to D11, a
revised budget by January 31, and quarterly financial reporting.
- CMA's June 17, 2025 minutes record 5-0 adoption of the FY26 appropriation
resolution, with D11 Superintendent Michael Gaal voting yes. January 20, 2026
minutes record 4-0 adoption of the proposed revised FY26 budget, with Gaal
marked N/A.
- As of August 16, 2026, the school's linked FY26 original/revised budget PDFs
returned 404. WordPress metadata preserves the attachment titles, dates,
URLs, and file sizes, but not the figures or schedules.
- The signed FY27 budget recovered September 3 includes total appropriations of $13,888,415. Its cover says June 16, while the signed appropriation page gives June 17 as the adoption date. It establishes the signed document, not a reconciled vote date, D11 receipt or implementation. See Colorado Military Academy financial transparency and FY27 budget.
- CMA's available FY25 budget, FY22-FY25 audits, and CDE transaction data are
counterevidence to any claim that no financial information is available.
- What figures and schedules appear in the FY26 original and revised budgets?
- Which approved minutes reconcile the June 16/17 dates in the signed FY27 budget, and when was it submitted to D11 and posted publicly?
- Where are the missing April-June 2026 approved minutes and quarterly reports?
- What records define Gaal's CMA board appointment, term, duties, recusals, and
conflict review?
- a locally retained official state dataset and report from ed.cde.state.co.us, captured 2026-04-27, titled El Paso County charter and innovation school inventory source package
- a locally retained official state dataset and report from ed.cde.state.co.us, captured 2026-04-27, titled El Paso County charter and innovation school inventory source package
- El Paso County Charter and Innovation School Inventory, 2026-04-27
- a locally retained board record, dated 2025-06-11
- a locally retained June 11, 2025 Colorado Springs School District 11 board record
- a locally retained education record, dated 2026-08-16
¶ Source access and local retention
Atlas Trace retains research captures and provenance records locally. Public originals, when available, appear in the Original links section below; internal archive paths and restricted materials are not public links. See Sources, access, and local retention.