This source is a local commentary article arguing that hiring Brad Miller and Miller Farmer Law would import a broader Colorado culture-war and test-case legal strategy into the Montrose County School District.
The piece is published by Anne Landman and focuses on a February 2026 Montrose County School Board decision about whether to hire Brad Miller as district counsel. It is advocacy-oriented and should be read as a critical local account rather than a neutral procedural summary.
- The article says Miller Farmer Law is associated with religiously and politically charged school-board conflicts in Colorado.
- It links Brad Miller to efforts around Colorado's claimed first public Christian school and frames that effort as part of a Supreme Court-oriented test-case strategy.
- It also alleges Miller advised school boards on ways to bypass or strain standard governance and transparency processes.
- The article argues Montrose could avoid conflict, cost, and negative attention by not hiring the firm.
- Christian nationalism
- Public funding for religious education
- School-board legal strategy
- 2026-02-11: article published ahead of a Montrose school board meeting on hiring district counsel
- The piece references earlier Colorado school-district controversies and the Riverstone public-Christian-school dispute as background
- Legal test-case strategy through local school governance
- Use of school-board counsel to advance ideological conflict
- Public-school institutions as vehicles for broader religious-political litigation
¶ Evidence limits and open questions
- This is a critical commentary source and not all allegations are independently demonstrated within the article itself.
- Several claims rely on linked external reporting and prior disputes rather than on newly presented documents in this capture.
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