Woodland Park School District RE-2 is the district-level institution at the center of the repo's Woodland Park cluster, where board records, open-meetings litigation, charter-authorizer work, the Wommack / Charis political environment, and the American Birthright social-studies sequence intersect.
In this repository, Woodland Park matters as more than a place name in reporting about Andrew Wommack, Jameson Dion, or Brad Miller. It is the public-school district where those overlapping local-power and governance disputes become institutional. The new board-material batch adds a direct 2026 record of regular and special meetings, which helps keep the district page grounded in official governance documents rather than only in reporting, commentary, and litigation.
2025 Merit Academy charter-renewal packet/contract materials; retained October 30, 2025 Merit Academy facilities-lease minutes/addendum; and retained agendas and available minutes from 2026-02-18 through 2026-05-132025 Merit Academy renewal-contract source layer: the WPSD August 13 board packet contains a Merit Academy Contract Extension cover sheet and proposed contract body through [Signature Page Follows], while the retained executed contract PDF has a signature page dated August 15, 2025 and a term through June 30, 2055; the retained source set does not include the incorporated attachments/addenda or a pre-August 15 Merit Academy board-approval record30, 2025 special-meeting minutes and addendum preserve a proposed 500 E. Kelley's Rd. facilities lease with Merit Academy Building Corporation as lessee, including sublease, leasehold-mortgage, renewal, and right-of-first-refusal mechanics; the 2026-02-18 special-meeting minutes preserve the Merit Academy true-up, transportation and COP funding dispute, reserve-pressure discussion, and repeated acknowledgement that some district-or-charter arrangements were not fully documented in written contracts; the 2026-02-23 special-meeting agenda declares superintendent finalists; the 2026-03-11 regular-meeting minutes show a layered communications plan, strategic-plan feedback collection, CACSA charter-authorizer work, and continued contract-review work around Merit Academy; the 2026-03-16 special-meeting minutes appoint Ginger Slocum while deferring final contract approval for revisions; the 2026-04-08 minutes extend the sequence into Merit payment timing, at-risk funding, sustainable-funding, WPSD Foundation / tax-credit discussion, and CACSA contract-completeness concerns; the 2026-05-04 audit minutes add disclaimed opinions, journal-entry and plug-entry concerns, and monthly general-ledger detail as a Merit payment-traceability target; and the 2026-05-13 agenda notices Finance Committee / Fiscal Oversight discussion plus an executive session for legal advice on Merit Academy charter-contract termsThe retained American Birthright source cluster adds a separate, earlier Woodland Park layer from the 2026 board-material sequence. A Wayback-recovered district press release says the WPSD Board of Education passed a January 11, 2023 resolution adopting American Birthright social studies standards. The press release frames American Birthright as a flexible model and says Chief Academic Officer Tina Cassens would lead a review and crosswalk against current curriculum.
The strongest local document-flow evidence is the WPSD Social Studies Guide prepared by Elisabeth A. Richard / Helping Schools Thrive. That guide treats American Birthright as the primary philosophy and content source for social-studies review while preserving Colorado Academic Standards as a compliance layer. A separate Helping Schools Thrive proposal ties the review to the January 2023 board resolution.
The state-to-district bridge remains incomplete. CPR reported that Ken Witt said he consulted with state school board members who backed American Birthright, and the WPSD press release thanked state-board members who put the standard forward. That supports a possible state-board-supporter-to-WPSD consultation or legitimacy pathway, but the current repo does not identify the board members, correspondence, dates, documents exchanged, or any direct Civics Alliance / David Randall private role.
The current evidence supports Woodland Park adoption, district alignment work, public defense of standards compliance, and reported course-language transfer. It does not support a claim that CDE approved American Birthright, that Civics Alliance drafted the district guide, or that Woodland Park's adoption pathway ran through the broader Wommack / Charis context.
The August 2023 Independence Institute Witt interview adds public-message evidence after adoption. In the cleaned auto-caption transcript, Witt identifies Civics Alliance as American Birthright's developer, uses State Board consideration as a legitimacy frame, repeats the WPSD meet-or-exceed state-standards posture, and says other school-board members had contacted him about doing something similar. That is diffusion and messaging evidence, not proof of private correspondence.
Selected outward-facing links for the American Birthright layer:
wiki/summaries/education/american-birthright-colorado-state-board-and-woodland-park-source-cluster.md: maps the documented and unresolved relationships among Civics Alliance, Randall, the Colorado State Board, CDE, and WPSD around American Birthright.wiki/timelines/american-birthright-in-colorado-and-woodland-park.md: dates the Colorado standards, State Board, WPSD adoption, and follow-on alignment sequence while preserving chronology limits.raw/education/american-birthright-colorado/raw-assets/wayback-20230118223823-wpsd-american-birthright-resolution.pdf: preserves the Wayback-recovered WPSD press release on the January 2023 adoption.raw/education/american-birthright-colorado/raw-assets/woodland-park-social-studies-guide.pdf: preserves the WPSD social-studies guide / crosswalk prepared by Helping Schools Thrive.wiki/summaries/education/independence-institute-ken-witt-woodland-park-american-birthright-interview.md: summarizes the August 2023 Independence Institute Ken Witt interview as public-message and possible diffusion evidence, with auto-caption limitations.wiki/summaries/data-inventories/registered-school-district-board-agendas-and-minutes-april-2026-source-cluster.md: adds the official 2026 board-record layer, including the superintendent-search, charter-governance, communications-planning, and April 8 follow-up sequence.wiki/summaries/education/wpsd-merit-academy-charter-renewal-contract-source-set-2025-08.md: preserves the August 2025 WPSD packet / executed-contract discrepancy, the missing incorporated-attachment question, and the unresolved Merit Academy board-approval record gap without converting those gaps into a legal conclusion.wiki/summaries/education/woodland-park-school-district-governance-superintendent-search-and-merit-academy-sequence-2026.md: synthesizes the current official sequence around Merit Academy true-up, payment traceability, audit controls, contract gaps, superintendent search and appointment, CACSA training, reserve pressure, and communications or strategic-plan work.wiki/summaries/education/andrew-wommack-charis-and-woodland-park-cluster.md: provides the broader Wommack, Charis, Truth & Liberty, and local-power context around Woodland Park.wiki/summaries/education/brad-miller-and-colorado-school-board-culture-war-network.md: provides the legal and governance-conflict layer, especially around open meetings and charter issues.wiki/summaries/education/jameson-dion-biographical-profile-and-woodland-park-political-ties.md: adds the local activist and parent-rights layer around the district.raw/articles/2026-04-12T031717-0600 ACLU sues Colorado school district after former employee was forced to leave, banned over “harmless” comment.md: adds a mainstream-news account of the Logan Ruths banishment and speech-rights dispute.raw/papers/CONNELL v. WOODLAND PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT II (2025).md: preserves the Colorado Supreme Court opinion clarifying the COML cure doctrine and fee entitlement in the Woodland Park dispute.| Document title | Originally ingested | Status | Duplicate check date |
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| Regular Board Meeting 04-08-26 | 2026-04-13 | Unchanged | 2026-04-20 |
| Board Regular Minutes 03-11-26 | 2026-04-13 | Unchanged | 2026-04-20 |
| Special Board Meeting 03-16-26 minutes | 2026-04-13 | Unchanged | 2026-04-16 |
| Special Board Meeting 04-23-26 board packet | 2026-04-21 | Unchanged | 2026-04-24 |
| Special Board Meeting 05-04-26 board packet | 2026-04-29 | Unchanged | 2026-05-04 |
| Regular Board Meeting 05-13-26 board packet | 2026-05-09 | Unchanged | 2026-05-14 |
| Special Board Meeting 05-28-26 board packet | 2026-05-22 | Unchanged | 2026-05-26 |
2026 board-material layer is now much stronger, but many 2021 to 2024 Woodland Park conflict claims, including the Ruths retaliation dispute, still depend more heavily on reporting and court records than on a complete official archive.2025 Merit Academy renewal-contract layer, the current repo still needs WPSD August 13 minutes, any Merit Academy pre-August 15 approval record, and the incorporated contract attachments/addenda before stronger conclusions about approval validity, cure, or enforceability can be supported.2025 Merit Academy facilities-lease layer, the current repo still needs later approval/rejection records, final lease redlines, executed lease if any, lender / leasehold-mortgage records, Merit Academy Building Corporation governance records, facility-use revenue records, and the November 10 CDE/Merit/district meeting records referenced in the minutes.2026 Merit fiscal traceability layer, the current repo still needs the FY2025 audit PDF/workpapers, single-audit package, journal-entry support for the approximate $3 million component-unit plug entry, monthly general-ledger detail, payment schedules, at-risk-funding legal interpretation, May 13 minutes / outcome, and any later finance-committee or fiscal-oversight records before stronger claims about amounts, legality, private benefit, or enforcement can be supported.O'Connell chronology into one dated page.