This is the master chronology for Colorado public-school privatization and alternative-governance efforts currently supported by the repository. It begins with the Jefferson County / Jeffco entry point around Brad Miller and Ken Witt as a reported repeat-operator frame, then expands to Woodland Park, D11, ERBOCES, CSI, school-choice advocacy, philanthropic and scholarship infrastructure, campaign-finance infrastructure, homeschool-enrichment funding, religious-public-school litigation, and statewide charter / school-choice policy fights.
Public-school privatization is treated here as a working research frame. Entries are included when they materially explain shifts in public authority, funding, governance, authorizing, legal posture, contractor infrastructure, political capacity, or school-choice pathways. The label is not forced onto every event.
Included: dated district-governance fights, legal-counsel recurrence, charter-authorizer shifts, BOCES / contract-school and homeschool-enrichment structures, school-choice support infrastructure, philanthropic seed-to-public-funding mechanisms, federal tax-credit / SGO implementation where Colorado-specific, campaign-finance and dark-money layers when they materially affect the chronology, and statewide policy / regulatory / litigation turning points.
Excluded: generic education-policy debate, one-off school-choice mentions, every Colorado charter action, and unsupported claims of coordination, control, sponsorship, influence, or intent.
Date caveat: exact dates are used only when retained sources support them. Some early Jeffco / Woodland Park continuity and some D11 / Advance Colorado / school-board-network claims remain reporting-backed rather than direct official-record findings.
2000 to 2001-05-18: Parents Challenge's outcomes page says Steve and Joyce Schuck founded the organization in 2000, and Colorado charity-registration data lists Parents Challenge as formed on 2001-05-18. Evidence strength: direct first-party self-description plus direct state charity record. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2005: Miller's firm profile says his practice served Colorado education clients beginning in 2005, and the current profile says Miller was appointed to the Colorado Charter School Institute board in 2005. Evidence strength: self-description / firm-profile evidence; direct official verification for later CSI service appears in 2008 minutes. Source basis: Brad Miller chronology.2008-04-22: CSI board minutes list Brad Miller as present and seconding motions. Evidence strength: direct official board record. Source basis: Brad Miller chronology.2012-01-19: Chalkbeat publishes a commentary co-authored by Miller and others tied to Charter School Solutions, with reference to a charter appeal involving D49 / Imagine Schools. Evidence strength: direct article capture for public role; not proof of later district strategy. Source basis: Brad Miller chronology.2013-2015: Reporting summarized in the repo ties Miller and Ken Witt together in the earlier Jeffco conservative-board cycle, including legal hiring, superintendent conflict, and curriculum controversy. Evidence strength: reported relationship; source limit: direct Jeffco contract, invoice, board-packet, and correspondence records remain needed. Source basis: Brad Miller and Colorado school-board culture-war network.2013-06-17: Colorado SOS forms Colorado Digital Board of Cooperative Education Services, the predecessor to Education reEnvisioned BOCES. Evidence strength: direct state filing. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2016: Third Future Schools profiles say Mike Miles founded Third Future Schools after his earlier Harrison D2 and Dallas roles. Evidence strength: first-party profile evidence; claim limit: not direct evidence of later Colorado Springs district decisions. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2017-08-28: Colorado newly formed nonprofit data lists The Legacy Institute as a Good Standing nonprofit formed at 525 N Tejon. Evidence strength: direct state record. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2018-06-25: Colorado SOS forms Miller Farmer Law LLC. Evidence strength: direct state filing. Source basis: Brad Miller chronology.2018-10-29: Colorado Digital BOCES changes its name to Education reEnvisioned BOCES. Evidence strength: direct state filing. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2018-2019: CSI CARS material lists Coperni 2 as opened / transferred as a K-8 CSI-authorized Colorado Springs school. Evidence strength: direct authorizer / state-source layer in the retained chronology; claim limit: standalone CSI board action still should be inspected for exact route. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2019-08: CDE SchoolView profile evidence says Coperni 3 opened in Colorado Springs as part of the Third Future Schools lane. Evidence strength: direct CDE profile evidence. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2019-08-27: Dakota Foundation announces Dakota Promise with PPCC, Legacy Institute, and Harrison School District 2, with Dakota funding the pilot for three years and Harrison D2 working toward sustainability. Evidence strength: direct Dakota public article / archived page; claim limit: underlying agreements and fund-account records remain needed. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2020-05 to 2020-08: The later Colorado Supreme Court opinion says ERBOCES and CLLC agreed in May 2020 that CLLC would operate Orton Academy inside D11 boundaries, and D11 outside counsel objected in August 2020. Evidence strength: direct court record for procedural history; claim limit: do not treat this as proof of all actors' motives. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2020: Colorado Sun reporting says Unite for Colorado distributed $17.2 million across Republican-aligned nonprofits, ballot-measure work, consulting, candidate-support infrastructure, and Ready Colorado. Evidence strength: reported from IRS filing; direct filing extraction is separate. Source basis: Colorado conservative reallocation chronology, 2004-2026 and Advance Colorado network and ballot-politics chronology.2021: Colorado Sun reports Michael Fields saying Unite for Colorado was born from Democratic control after 2018 because conservative donors wanted a path forward without the House, Senate, or governor. Evidence strength: reported direct strategic quote; source limit: not a complete donor-allocation dataset. Source basis: Colorado conservative reallocation chronology, 2004-2026.2021: Reporting summarized in the D11 chronology describes conservatives winning control of the D11 board. Evidence strength: reporting-backed; direct election-result records remain a lower-priority source gap. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2021-12: Reporting says Mesa County Valley School District 51 conservatives attempted to hire Miller Farmer, drawing open-meetings criticism and comparisons to Jeffco. Evidence strength: reported relationship; useful as recurrence evidence, not proof of statewide coordination. Source basis: Brad Miller chronology.2021-12-14: CSI renews Coperni 3 for three years with an automatic two-year extension if conditions are met, according to a CSI release summarized in the Third Future / Miles chronology. Evidence strength: direct CSI release; claim limit: not a full financial or performance audit. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2022-01-03: Colorado newly formed nonprofit data lists Colorado Parents for Quality Education as formed. Evidence strength: direct state record; claim limit: later Legacy grant evidence does not by itself connect CPQE to D11 policy or Spruce. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2022-10-12: The Colorado State Board considers but rejects an American Birthright-aligned social-studies standards amendment. Evidence strength: direct official board record. Source basis: American Birthright in Colorado and Woodland Park.2022-11 to 2023-01: Colorado SOS records the Miller Farmer name transition to Miller Farmer Carlson Law LLC. Evidence strength: direct state filing. Source basis: Brad Miller chronology.2023-01-11: Woodland Park adopts American Birthright, according to a Wayback-recovered district press release. Evidence strength: direct district press-release evidence; direct minutes / packet / resolution remain priority records. Source basis: American Birthright in Colorado and Woodland Park.2023-01-12: CPR reports Ken Witt consulted with State Board members who backed American Birthright. Evidence strength: reported relationship; source limit: names, dates, correspondence, and documents exchanged remain missing. Source basis: American Birthright Colorado State Board and Woodland Park Source Cluster.2023-01-17: CSI resolution material in a Third Future board packet approves Coperni 2 renewal for a three-year term with an automatic two-year extension based on benchmarks. Evidence strength: direct packet-preserved resolution / contract evidence; standalone CSI-signed contract and final closure records remain a gap. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2023-03-04: An archived Parents Challenge board page shows Mike Miles in the board grid; Parents Challenge's 2023 Form 990 later lists him as trustee with zero compensation. Evidence strength: direct archived page and filing-derived roster evidence; claim limit: recruitment, nomination, board-vote mechanics, and active service remain unresolved. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2023-05-17: D11 approves MLO PIP 12 Mitchell Promise as a four-year pilot, with a $200,000 annual D11 budget and 50 percent match language with PPSC; the packet includes a D11 / PPSC memorandum describing Pell / Colorado aid first and PPSC invoicing D11 twice annually. Evidence strength: direct D11 board / packet evidence; claim limit: outside fund route and executed agreement remain unresolved. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2023-06: ERBOCES minutes authorize operating agreements with multiple homeschool-enrichment providers. Evidence strength: direct ERBOCES board record. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2023-06-01: TEA names Mike Miles Houston ISD superintendent and Third Future announces a leadership transition, with Zach Craddock to lead as superintendent while Miles steps away to focus on Houston. Evidence strength: direct TEA / Third Future releases; claim limit: post-transition Third Future governance and Colorado board-service activity remain unresolved. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2023-06-21: Third Future announces Coperni 2 and Coperni 3 consolidation for 2023-24, operating as one school, Coperni 3; CSI closure-procedures material later records parent-letter and closure-project steps. Evidence strength: direct Third Future release and CSI closure-procedures document; claim limit: final CSI minutes / CDE closure coding remain needed. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2023-08-31: Independence Institute publishes a Ken Witt interview later linked by Civics Alliance; the cleaned auto-caption transcript supports public message evidence around State Board legitimacy, standards compliance, and other-district interest. Evidence strength: direct public-message evidence with transcript caveat; not private coordination evidence. Source basis: Independence Institute Ken Witt Woodland Park American Birthright Interview.2023-09-14: D11 board communication announces expansion of Mitchell Promise into D11 Promise for all D11 graduating seniors and names Bruni Foundation, Dakota Foundation, Legacy Institute, and PPSC as partners. Evidence strength: direct D11 communication; claim limit: agreements, payment route, and public-finance records remain missing. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2023-10: Colorado Times Recorder reporting on D20 chat logs, church outreach, and outside spending places Advocates for D20 Kids, Wilburn, campaign-team planning, and Springs Opportunity Fund support in one local school-board campaign environment. Evidence strength: reporting / leaked-source summary; claim limit: partial archive and provenance caveats remain. Source basis: Academy District 20 manufactured outrage and candidate network.2023-10-26: TRACER screen records Cathy Holaday contributing $2,500 to ELECT PARTH MELPAKAM. Evidence strength: direct TRACER screen; claim limit: personal contribution, not Dakota Foundation spending. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2023-11: Leadership Institute summit reporting adds a post-election school-board-governance playbook involving superintendent, attorney, communications, union, and private-planning recommendations. Evidence strength: reporting-backed; use as public event / strategy-source context. Source basis: Academy District 20 manufactured outrage and candidate network.2023-11-29: D11 conditionally approves Orton Academy subject to final contract terms. Evidence strength: direct D11 board record. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2023-11-29: D11 unanimously approves the plan amendment expanding PIP 12 from Mitchell Promise to D11 Promise, allowing the already approved $200,000 annual D11 MLO funds to apply to eligible D11 graduates. Evidence strength: direct D11 agenda / minutes / amendment evidence; claim limit: full outside funding stack and COSI route unresolved. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2023: D11 Momentum promotes a conservative D11 slate and displays a Springs Opportunity Fund paid-for disclaimer. Evidence strength: direct site/disclaimer evidence; claim limit: not proof of candidate coordination. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2024-03-29 to 2024-04-11: Colorado Sun reports on HB24-1363 as a contested charter transparency / accountability bill, and official legislative records now support both the introduced bill contents and final outcome. The bill contained charter-board composition, automatic waiver, Form 990 / marketing-disclosure, appeal, moratorium, conflict-of-interest, and special-education / administrative-cost provisions; House Education postponed it indefinitely on 2024-04-11. Evidence strength: direct bill and committee records for content / outcome; reporting for advocacy context. Source basis: Colorado Sun charter and school-choice policy source cluster, 2024-2025 and Colorado charter and CSI direct policy records source cluster, 2024-2026.2024-04-11: CDE says the State Board unanimously approved D11's Colorado Springs School of Technology innovation zone with alternative governance and a community-leader board. Evidence strength: direct CDE record; claim limit: do not treat CSST as a charter school without separate support. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2024-04-17: D11 approves Orton's charter contract for a July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029 term. Evidence strength: direct D11 board record. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2024-05-20: The Colorado Supreme Court holds in ERBOCES v. Colorado Springs School District 11 that a BOCES may not locate a school in a nonmember district without that district's consent. Evidence strength: direct court record. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2024-06-12: D11 FY25 proposed budget lists D11 Promise/scholarships (PIP #12) as a 2017 MLO purchased-services line at $200,000. Evidence strength: direct D11 budget book; claim limit: D11-side budget classification only. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2024-09-04: D11 superintendent report says the 2023 Mitchell Promise involved 24 Mitchell students and the 2024 D11 Promise involved 185 D11 students, and thanks Bruni Foundation and Dakota Foundation for donations. Evidence strength: direct D11 superintendent report; claim limit: impact summary and acknowledgment, not fund-account record. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2024-10: TEA closes a special investigation into allegations involving Third Future Schools-Texas partnerships, concluding no applicable Texas-law violations and no merit to the investigated allegations that state funds were inappropriately diverted. Evidence strength: direct TEA report / closure letter; claim limit: Texas scope-limited finding, not a global audit of Third Future finances or Colorado operations. Source basis: Mike Miles, Third Future Schools, and Colorado Springs chronology.2024: Colorado Sun / CTR / official-source layers place Amendment 80 and other school-choice or ballot-measure fights inside Advance Colorado / Ready Colorado / Title Board context. Evidence strength: mixed official and reporting-backed; source limit: do not use ballot rows alone as proof of sponsorship unless the row or supporting source names it. Source basis: Advance Colorado network and ballot-politics chronology and Advance Colorado dark-money network and school-board influence.2024-25: ERBOCES FY 2024-25 audit records about $85.6M in revenue, 7,636 sFTE, nine contract schools, 43 homeschool-enrichment programs, and purchased instructional services at 97% of expenditures. Evidence strength: direct audit record. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2024 tax year / filed 2025: Bruni Foundation's 2024 990-PF lists a $50,000 education grant to Legacy Institute; Dakota's rendered 2024 990-PF lists a $22,000 grant to D11 for an annual teaching award and Pikes Peak Community Foundation scholarship-purpose rows. Evidence strength: direct filing-derived evidence; claim limit: grant restrictions, D11 Promise routing, and any charter-specific effects remain unresolved. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2025-03-13: Colorado Sun reports Coleman was considering an education deserts proposal that could allow CSI-authorized charters to open near low-performing schools, possibly without local school-board approval. Evidence strength: reported proposal; direct bill text / final status needed. Source basis: Colorado Sun charter and school-choice policy source cluster, 2024-2025.2025-03 to 2025-05: ERBOCES packets show multiple homeschool-enrichment application motions and CDE IDEA compliance correspondence references. Evidence strength: direct ERBOCES board-packet evidence; claim limit: full provider-contract corpus remains missing. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2025-03-31 to 2025-04-04: A retained Miller email and letter template support Miller's circulation of the D49 / CHSAA sports-policy letter to D20 and other district / charter board networks. Evidence strength: direct for circulation and letter text; unresolved for D11 recipients and signers. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2025-04-28: Gov. Jared Polis signs SB25-223, which changes parts of CSI mill-levy equalization treatment, including a limit on distributing part of appropriated mill-levy equalization funds to multi-district online schools authorized by CSI beginning in 2025-26. Evidence strength: direct enacted-law / official bill-page record; claim limit: fiscal effects are funding-policy context, not proof of causation for any school-specific decision. Source basis: Colorado charter and CSI direct policy records source cluster, 2024-2026.2025-05-09: The D49 / CHSAA sports-policy complaint is filed with D49 as plaintiff and First & Fourteenth as counsel of record. Evidence strength: direct court record; claim limit: Miller is a reported drafting / circulation figure, not filed counsel in the complaint. Source basis: Brad Miller chronology.2025-06-04: D11 minutes record a compressed alternative-governance stack: labor-recognition and meet-and-confer repeals, budget removal of union-president FTEs, Mitchell innovation renewal with partial external management, East Hills and Spruce charter approvals, JBA / IMD first readings, and future agenda requests for union-resource restrictions and library audit. Evidence strength: direct D11 board record; claim limit: same-meeting compression supports a stack hypothesis, not coordination or intent. Source basis: D11 alternative-governance stack source cluster, June 2025.2025-06-04: D11 minutes record Spruce Community School's charter application action item and approval of Resolution 2025-41 by 7-0. The Spruce application says Loren Koszowski was selected for Legacy Fellowship, completed school visits and leadership training, and that founding-board candidates were interviewed by Legacy Institute leadership. Evidence strength: direct D11 board / application evidence; claim limit: founder pipeline evidence, not proof of Legacy control, Parents Challenge funding, or outside coordination. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2025-06-04: D11 minutes record Superintendent Michael Gaal recognizing Teacher Impact Award recipients and thanking Dakota Foundation for teacher support. Evidence strength: direct D11 minutes; claim limit: award agreement / matching paperwork not retrieved. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2025-06-04: Reporting says Miller wrote about a Colorado parallel test case involving Riverstone and Alliance Defending Freedom interest; the repo's unauthenticated image copy is OCR-poor and not filing-grade. Evidence strength: reporting-backed; source limit: avoid hardening the email into an official record without authentication. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES media chronology source cluster and Brad Miller chronology.2025-06-24: Colorado newly formed nonprofit data lists Spruce Community School as a Good Standing nonprofit formed at 525 N Tejon. Evidence strength: direct state record; claim limit: address overlap does not prove control. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2025-06-24: Pueblo 70 / Riverstone reporting and later source layers place district-boundary approval in the Riverstone sequence. Evidence strength: mixed reporting and partial district-source evidence; full direct Pueblo 70 packet / MOU records remain needed. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES media chronology source cluster.2025-07-04: Public Law 119-21 adds Section 25F, creating the federal scholarship tax credit / SGO structure. Evidence strength: direct federal implementation source layer; claim limit: federal mechanism, not a Colorado-created program and not proof of any Colorado SGO qualification. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027.2025-07-21: Colorado Sun reports pro-charter and dark-money funding into a super PAC backing Michael Bennet's gubernatorial campaign. Evidence strength: reported campaign-finance context; direct TRACER / IEC rows and nonprofit filings are needed for stronger use. Source basis: Colorado Sun charter and school-choice policy source cluster, 2024-2025.2025-07-22: The amended District 49 v. Sullivan complaint adds D11, D20, ERBOCES, James Irwin, Monument Academy, The Classical Academy, and others as plaintiffs. Evidence strength: direct court record. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2025-08: Reporting says Riverstone opened; the federal complaint later alleges Riverstone operated as a tuition-free contract school under ERBOCES contract. Evidence strength: reported for opening; direct for complaint allegation. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2025-08: CSGF's 2025 Seed Cohort page lists Loren Koszowski as Founder of Spruce Community School. Evidence strength: direct charter-support ecosystem page; claim limit: grant terms and conditions remain unresolved. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2025-08-26: Colorado Sun reports Ready Colorado's statewide open-enrollment / school-choice analysis, and the report is now captured directly. Ready Colorado says that in 2024-25, 39.4% of Colorado PK-12 public-school students, more than 347,000, attended a school other than their zoned neighborhood school; it also names D49, D20, Jeffco, D11, and ERBOCES in enrollment-flow context. Evidence strength: direct advocacy-report capture for reported statistics and district rankings; underlying CDE data file remains missing. Source basis: Colorado Sun charter and school-choice policy source cluster, 2024-2025 and Ready Colorado open-enrollment report source cluster, 2025.2025-10-06: TRACER screen records Bart Holaday contributing $2,500 each to DR. RUEHL FOR D11, FRIENDS OF MR. COLE, and PARENTS FOR JEREMIAH. Evidence strength: direct TRACER screen; claim limit: personal contributions, not Dakota Foundation organizational activity. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2025-10-08: TRACER records show ADVANCE COLORADO ACTION contributing $125,000.00 to D11 Parents and Teachers. Evidence strength: direct transaction row; claim limit: money flow does not prove policy causation or candidate coordination. Source basis: Advance Colorado network and ballot-politics chronology and El Paso school-board intermediary network: Cole Communications, Victor's Canvassing, and D11/D20 fronts.2025-10-10: CDE sends D49 and ERBOCES a letter questioning Riverstone contract-school authority, nonsectarian operation, School Finance Act eligibility, and contracted-services assurances. Evidence strength: direct CDE correspondence. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2025-10-15: National Lutheran Scholarship Fund is formed as a Colorado nonprofit corporation. Evidence strength: direct Colorado nonprofit refresh; claim limit: possible SGO candidate only, not listed or qualified Colorado SGO evidence. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027.2025-11-07: Great Schools Colorado says twenty schools received CSP sub-grants and lists Spruce as a new Colorado Springs school opening in Fall 2026; its awardees page lists Spruce, D11 authorization, and a $1,882,697 CSP award. Evidence strength: direct Great Schools Colorado pages; claim limit: award terms, restrictions, and identity/name variant remain unresolved. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2025-11 to 2025-12: D11 board records place the district in executive-session and settlement-agreement actions related to D49 v. Sullivan / CHSAA. Evidence strength: direct D11 board record and docket mirror. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2026-01: ERBOCES revised FY 2025-26 budget reports 9,382.5 total sFTE, about $102.9M in program revenue, and about $97.3M in professional-educational services. Evidence strength: direct budget record. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2026-01-08 to 2026-01-12: Weld RE-4 records support legal-advice and public-vote action around American Legacy Academy's transfer / conversion pathway to CSI, including conditions on conversion, location, relocation, and grade-level expansion. Evidence strength: direct Weld board record for district action; unresolved for CSI approval and final authorizer status. Source basis: Weld RE-4 American Legacy Academy CSI transfer source cluster, 2026.2026-01-16: The Children's Scholarship Fund receives Colorado charity-registration approval in the retained state dataset. Evidence strength: direct Colorado charity-registration row; claim limit: monitoring signal for an established national SGO actor, not Colorado SGO qualification. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027.2026-01-28: D11 FY26 mid-year budget retains D11 Promise/scholarships (PIP #12) at $200,000 and continues to label transfer-summary item 12 as Mitchell Promise; it also lists small designated-purpose rows for D11 Promise Scholarships and Dakota Foundation Teacher Awards. Evidence strength: direct D11 budget book; claim limit: outside partner payment routing remains unresolved. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2026-01-29 to 2026-02-23: Invest in Education reports a Denver event where Gov. Jared Polis stated Colorado would participate in the federal tax-credit scholarship program; HB26-1292 is later introduced and assigned to House Education. Evidence strength: advocacy-source event page plus direct Colorado General Assembly bill page / introduced bill; claim limit: event page is not a state implementation page, and introduced bill status requires later refresh. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027.2026-02-13: ERBOCES and Riverstone file a federal complaint against Colorado education officials. Evidence strength: direct pleading. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline.2026-02-24: PPSC says the PPSC / Harrison D2 / Legacy Institute / Dakota Foundation partnership won a 2026 Bellwether Best in Showcase award for D2 Promise. Evidence strength: direct PPSC article; claim limit: award application / packet not retrieved. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2026-03-04: D11 minutes record a Falcon AeroLab homeschool-student tuition-transfer action. Evidence strength: direct D11 minutes; claim limit: payment route, contract, invoice, student count, ERBOCES administration, and recusal basis remain unresolved. Source basis: Falcon AeroLab, D11, and homeschool-enrichment source cluster, 2026.2026-03-04: Spruce board page lists a board meeting at 525 North Tejon Street; current Spruce footer pages later foreground 303 Austin Bluffs Parkway. Evidence strength: direct Spruce page captures; claim limit: multiple address signals require source-specific treatment and do not prove control. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2026-03-10: Montrose votes 5-2 to hire Miller Farmer Carlson as district counsel. Evidence strength: direct / local-reporting-supported district-counsel sequence in current summaries; use cautiously until the full official packet is retained. Source basis: Brad Miller chronology.2026-03-11: HB26-1292's initial fiscal note says the federal scholarship tax credit begins in tax year 2027, assumes Colorado is participating, and estimates CDE implementation costs. Evidence strength: direct fiscal-note evidence; claim limit: preliminary estimate and not a final Colorado SGO list. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027.2026-03-18: D11 records preserve a Pikes Peak State College healthcare high-school proposal using innovation-zone language and a proposed independent board. Evidence strength: direct proposal record; claim limit: no final MOU, innovation plan, waiver package, or adoption record captured. Source basis: Colorado Springs School District 11 governance, campaign-finance, and charter chronology, 2019-2026.2026-03-20: Official Initiative 279 review-and-comment materials describe a proposed CSI release mechanism: the review memo says the measure's apparent intent is to require release of a charter school to CSI when a local board denies an application or renewal and the charter school does not appeal. Evidence strength: direct initiative review materials for proposed text / apparent intent; claim limit: not a law, not ballot-qualified in the current source set, and not evidence of any school-specific transfer. Source basis: Colorado charter and CSI direct policy records source cluster, 2024-2026.2026-04-01: D11 approves Fox Trail Academy's request for D11 to relinquish exclusive chartering authority so Fox Trail can pursue CSI authorization. Evidence strength: direct D11 board record; unresolved for CSI outcome. Source basis: Colorado Charter School Institute.2026-04-14: ERBOCES agenda includes HSE approvals and executive-session legal advice on Riverstone litigation; Chalkbeat reports legislators and the State Board considering HSE funding cuts or limits on BOCES authorizing power. Evidence strength: direct ERBOCES agenda plus strong reporting; underlying legislation and State Board records remain needed. Source basis: Education reEnvisioned BOCES timeline and Colorado homeschool-enrichment funding and opposition cluster, 2026.2026-04-15: IRS FSTC page lists Colorado among participating states for 2027, and IRS implementation language says participating states must provide qualifying-SGO lists annually by January 1, with the 2027 list due by January 1, 2027 or as early as practicable. Evidence strength: direct IRS implementation page capture; claim limit: confirms advance-election participation / federal timing, not any organization's SGO status. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027.2026-04-15: S. 4297, the Keep Public Funds in Public Schools Act, is introduced in the U.S. Senate and referred to Finance. Evidence strength: official Congress.gov XML bill text; claim limit: federal repeal / implementation-risk signal only. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027.2026-04: Enrich Colorado / Family Worship Center retrieval gives a concrete provider-facing example of ERBOCES-funded HSE infrastructure and mixed private-school / public-funding surfaces. Evidence strength: direct provider-page captures; claim limit: contracts, check registers, invoices, and student-count records remain missing. Source basis: Enrich Colorado, Family Worship Center, and ERBOCES HSE source cluster, 2026.2026-04: CSI's current public homepage describes its portfolio as 47 schools, 20k+ students, 24 towns / cities, and 17 educational models. Evidence strength: direct current CSI page capture for scale; claim limit: this is current institutional context, not proof of growth rate, authority increase, or causation. Source basis: Colorado charter and CSI direct policy records source cluster, 2024-2026.2026-04-22 to 2026-04-23: Colorado SGO monitoring expands the watchlist to 36 newly formed nonprofit name hits and identifies AAA Scholarship Foundation, The Children's Scholarship Fund, and ACE Scholarships as high-signal national SGO / Colorado-charity-registration leads. Evidence strength: structured state dataset / monitoring evidence; claim limit: still no official Colorado State SGO list or organization-level Colorado qualification source. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027 and Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation monitoring, 2026.Fall 2026 target: D11, Spruce, CSGF, Great Schools Colorado, and Colorado League sources describe Spruce as opening in Fall 2026 / the 2026-2027 school year. Evidence strength: direct across multiple source classes; claim limit: opening status and operational records need later confirmation. Source basis: Spruce, Legacy, and Parents Challenge Chronology.2027-01-01: The federal scholarship tax credit may become available for eligible contributions, and state SGO list mechanics become operative for 2027 participation. Evidence strength: IRS FSTC / Revenue Procedure / Form 15714 / fiscal-note source layer; claim limit: actual Colorado operation still depends on state-list submission, federal guidance, and organization eligibility. Source basis: Colorado federal scholarship tax credit / SGO implementation chronology, 2025-2027.2027-10 planned: Promise for All's current page says the inaugural Promise Fellowship cohort launches in October 2027. Evidence strength: direct current page claim in the Dakota / Promise chronology; claim limit: program governance, seed funder, and funding documents not retrieved. Source basis: Dakota Foundation Promise and Colorado Springs education chronology.2013-2015: Jeffco establishes the repository's starting frame for Miller / Witt as reported repeat operators in conservative school-board governance conflict. This remains important but still needs direct Jeffco source normalization.2020-2024: ERBOCES / Orton / D11 litigation converts BOCES geography and authorizing authority into a concrete Colorado Supreme Court boundary.2023: Woodland Park / American Birthright and D20 / D11 school-board campaigns show local governance conflicts connecting to state-board legitimacy, Christian-right organizing, and outside spending.2024-2026: CSI becomes more visible as a statewide authorizer and transfer pathway in D11, Weld RE-4, enacted funding-policy changes, and proposed initiative / statewide-policy surfaces, while charter accountability and transparency also become state-policy fights.2025-06: D11's June 4 meeting is the densest single district-level alternative-governance stack in current evidence.2025-2026: ERBOCES / Riverstone / HSE turns BOCES and contractor-run enrichment from a technical governance issue into a statewide funding, nonsectarian, and oversight fight.2023-2027: Promise-program records add a separate seed-to-public-funding and replication lane: private philanthropic seed funding, D11 mill-levy support, PPSC / foundation administration questions, and planned fellowship replication.2023-2026: Advance Colorado / Springs Opportunity Fund / D11 Parents and Teachers / Title Board / petition and vendor evidence shows local school-board and education-policy fights embedded in broader ballot and campaign infrastructure.2025-2027: Section 25F / SGO implementation creates a federal tax-credit mechanism with Colorado participation signals and candidate-organization monitoring, while no Colorado SGO list is yet retained.This page is a synthesis timeline. It relies primarily on existing normalized summaries and sub-timelines, plus the Colorado Sun charter / school-choice policy source cluster and the 2026-04-29 direct-source follow-up for Ready Colorado, HB24-1363, SB25-223, Initiative 279, CSI current scale, Dakota / Promise, federal SGO implementation, Third Future / Coperni, and Spruce / Legacy / Parents Challenge. Direct board, court, SOS, TRACER, audit, legislative, IRS / filing-derived, and CDE records are treated as stronger than reporting or advocacy sources. Reporting and advocacy pages are retained where they supply chronology, source leads, or public framing not yet replaced by direct records.
education deserts bill matching the March 2025 reporting remains unresolved.N/A / no resources for those sections, sharpening the need for direct records requests.