This source cluster establishes the first official-source backbone for Colorado Boards of Cooperative Educational Services in the repository. It combines the Colorado Revised Statutes, CDE roster and regional-assignment records, CDE financial-transparency pages, and the Colorado BOCES Association directory.
The strongest official record in this pass is the 2025-26 CDE organization-code spreadsheet, which confirms 21 BOCES codes under county 90 / COLORADO BOCS. The Colorado BOCES Association directory usefully adds websites, executive-director names, and member-district lists, but it is an association source rather than a state-agency or statutory source.
9160 / 9140 follow-up note preserves a current CDE 404 response for the Front Range BOCES profile endpoint, official Front Range site evidence, current Blue Sky / NCES evidence, and stale Mt Evans naming signals.The statutory article defines a board of cooperative services as a regional educational service unit organized to provide services contracted by participating members. The same article frames the purpose as allowing school districts, and in some cases a school district with a postsecondary institution, to cooperate in furnishing lawful educational services.
The statutory scheme supports several core attributes:
The 2025-26 CDE organization-code spreadsheet confirms 21 BOCES organization codes. The CDE naming generally matches the user's target roster, with one notable name variant: CDE uses Northwest Colo BOCES, while other sources use Northwest Colorado BOCES or Northwest BOCES.
The CDE financial-transparency homepage provides the browse path for school districts, BOCES, and the Charter School Institute. Direct local CDE profile HTML is retained for Adams County BOCES and for code 9140, but the 9140 profile heading renders as Mt Evans BOCES (9140) while the CDE organization-code spreadsheet, CBA directory, NCES, and current Blue Sky official site use Blue Sky BOCES.
A follow-up structured extract preserves browser-accessible CDE financial-profile facts for many additional BOCES where full local HTML could not be retained. 9160 / Front Range BOCES is now narrower than an uncaptured-download problem: CDE roster and regional-assignment sources support the code/name, Front Range's official site is retained, and the ed.cde.state.co.us organization-profile URL for 9160 currently resolves locally to a CDE "Page Not Found" page.
The Colorado BOCES Association directory lists each BOCES with contact names, websites, and member districts. This is useful for statewide reference work, but it should be cited as association directory evidence rather than CDE confirmation of current board membership, current financial filings, or statutory status.
The bounded registry/API follow-up found Colorado Secretary of State and ProPublica records for the Colorado BOCES Association and Colorado BOCES Association Foundation. The association is listed in the retained ProPublica record as a 501(c)(6), and the foundation as a 501(c)(3). Both are separate nonprofit entities from the 21 CDE-coded statutory BOCES.
ERBOCES-specific registry records are retained in the ERBOCES source cluster. Those records establish ERBOCES' Colorado Secretary of State business-registry identity, not a blanket statewide tax posture.
For the smaller priority subset chosen in the continuation, ProPublica searches for ERBOCES, Front Range, Blue Sky, Mt Evans, Expeditionary, and Colorado River BOCES returned no direct entity-specific listings. That no-result should be treated as a bounded search result, not as proof that no EIN, IRS-derived record, or public-finance substitute exists under another name or source system.
The same priority subset now has an official Colorado Open Data business / charities query layer. The retained business-entity dataset files returned rows for ERBOCES and Colorado River BOCES. They returned no visible business rows for Front Range, Blue Sky, Mt Evans, or Expeditionary, and no visible charities-registration rows for any of the six selected names. Those are bounded dataset results, not filing-history images or IRS determinations.
For official finance pages, the continuation located a stronger subset layer for Expeditionary / RMSEL and Colorado River BOCES. RMSEL's financial-transparency page lists adopted budgets through a 2024-2025 revised budget, audits through 6/30/24, 9130 data files through FY23-24, and Form 990 links for 2016-2022; this pass retained and processed the latest visible revised budget, audit, and Form 990 PDFs. Colorado River's fiscal-transparency page lists FY22-FY26 budgets, FY21-FY25 finance data files and audits, FY21-FY25 trial balances, FY21-FY26 salary schedules, a Form 990.docx link, and a constitution/bylaws link; this pass retained and processed the latest visible audit PDF, adopted budget spreadsheet, and Form 990 document export. The finance-document summary shows the key source-specific contrast: RMSEL / Expeditionary has a retained Form 990 public-disclosure copy, while Colorado River posts a document saying it does not have a Form 990 on file because of governmental-unit or governmental-affiliate status. The pass did not retain every linked file.
This cluster gives the repo a baseline for interpreting BOCES as a Colorado public-education structure before turning to ERBOCES-specific controversies. It supports a durable concept page for Colorado BOCES and a statewide reference inventory without requiring 21 separate entity pages in the first pass.
It also helps separate legal authority from practice. The statutes establish general powers and limits; they do not by themselves prove that each BOCES uses the same operating model, authorizes schools, files the same tax forms, or has the same transparency footprint.
9160 / Front Range BOCES follow-up now documents a CDE 404 response at the retained profile endpoint.9140 has a name-variant problem: the retained CDE profile heading says Mt Evans BOCES, while the CDE organization-code spreadsheet, CBA directory, NCES, and current official site use Blue Sky BOCES.