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We're tired of being against stuff. We're Pro-Collaboration. Pro-Community. Pro-Inclusion. Pro-Students. Pro-Parents. Pro-Learning. Pro-Integrity. Pro-Colorado. A 501c4 supporting people and communities who believe in the power of CO and public education.

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Help Protect Colorado Through Better Laws — Welcome to the Pro-Colorado Education Project We need to protect Colorado now more than ever! Colorado legislators are stepping up to introduce laws that will help - and opposing laws that don't make Colorado a better place for all of us. We've…

PROTECT DISABILITY RIGHTS IN CO PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Testify and send emails to the House Education Committee for the Wed, March 11 afternoon meeting. Download our toolkit here: buff.ly/PcWuKNo #colorado #disabilityrights #ProCoforPublicEd

10.03.2026 01:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Student’s family will receive $20,000 from authorizer of Colorado’s ‘first public Christian school’ The group that authorized Riverstone Academy has agreed to pay $20,000 to settle a state complaint filed by the family of a student.

BREAKING! Yet another problem for Riverstone Academy. At what point will Colorado say "Enough is enough" to the leaders, board members, and law firms involved from all the districts and organizations? Family to get $20,000 from authorizer of Colorado’s ‘first public Christian school’ buff.ly/iwqWZmW

10.03.2026 00:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The current fed administration GUTTED the agency that investigates and protects disability rights for public school students. You can help protect Colorado's public school students, parents and families by telling CO's House Education Committee to SUPPORT HB 123 this week! buff.ly/PcWuKNo

09.03.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just signed up to testify in SUPPORT of HB26-1141, a bill that protects civil rights in Colorado public schools. You can share your story REMOTELY, via WRITTEN submission - OR - in person. FLEXIBLE options to make it easier for Coloradans to participate in democracy.

24.02.2026 01:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interest is increasing again in the role Minga Education has in charter schools around Colorado. See this post from Jun2 2025. Montrose Classical Academy’s Charter School Bid: Who’s Behind It and What’s at Stake? — Welcome to the Pro-Colorado Education Project buff.ly/xDzusRy

22.02.2026 16:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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THIS WEEK there's a bill in play that will help PROTECT CIVIL RIGHTS in our public schools. Let's tell the CO House Education Committee to VOTE YES on HB26-1141, which makes it clear that discriminatory behavior in public schools is NOT okay and adds oversight. Download the toolkit! buff.ly/Mp5Px8A

22.02.2026 15:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Several communities around the state are facing off over the reported political motivations of board members and lawyers. Learn more about some conservative financing in DAVIS | The Redprint: How Advance Colorado and Anonymous Donors Shape the Political Landscape buff.ly/5uezX6B

14.02.2026 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Board Meeting 02.10.2026 Board Meeting 02.10.2026

Watch the Montrose County School Board discussion and vote over whether to hire controversial Miller Farmer Carlson Law Firm on February 10. Spoiler: The decision was postponed. buff.ly/sIGIlco buff.ly/SPxb5cE

11.02.2026 16:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Political non-profit backs Montrose school board candidates with campaign support According to TRACER, the state’s campaign finance disclosure website, Ready Colorado spent over $12,200 toward campaign mailers supporting Neisha Balleck, Charlane Oswald, Dawn Shieldt and Ted…

Reminder: Ready Colorado out of Denver donated more than $12,000 to 4 candidates elected to the Montrose County School Board - a rural district in Western CO. District has roughly 6000 students. Political non-profit backs Montrose school board candidates with campaign support

11.02.2026 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2024 Colorado Revised Statutes :: Title 24 - GOVERNMENT - STATE (§§ 24-1-101 — 24-116-102) :: ADMINISTRATION (§§ 24-1-101 — 24-19.9-103) :: Article 18 - Standards of Conduct (§§ 24-18-101 — 24-18-309) :: Part 1 - CODE OF ETHICS (§§ 24-18-101 — 24-18-113) :: Section 24-18-102 - Definitions Justia Free Databases of U.S. Laws, Codes & Statutes

(5) "Local government" means the government of any county, city and county, city, town, special district, or school district. buff.ly/GSzmkau

10.02.2026 22:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2024 Colorado Revised Statutes :: Title 24 - GOVERNMENT - STATE (§§ 24-1-101 — 24-116-102) :: ADMINISTRATION (§§ 24-1-101 — 24-19.9-103) :: Article 18 - Standards of Conduct (§§ 24-18-101 — 24-18-309) :: Part 1 - CODE OF ETHICS (§§ 24-18-101 — 24-18-113) :: Section 24-18-103 - Public trust - breach of fiduciary duty Justia Free Databases of U.S. Laws, Codes & Statutes

(2) ...a local government official, or employee whose conduct departs from his fiduciary duty is liable to the people of the state as a trustee of property and shall suffer such other liabilities as a private fiduciary would suffer for abuse of his trust.

10.02.2026 22:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Change starts here Join over 500,000,000 people creating real change in their communities.

A Co Springs community is fighting against hiring attorney Brad Miller. Reports say they settled with the inhouse lawyer last year for $500,000 so she'd leave, making way for the controversial Miller. See & sign their petition here: Change.org buff.ly/vOsTcke

31.01.2026 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Battle for Public Funding of Christian Schools Expands The ongoing effort to seek government funding for Christian public schools failed in Oklahoma last year, but advocates are trying again with Christian public schools in Colorado and Tennessee and...

Battle for Public Funding of Christian Schools Expands - a school located in Pueblo D70 under contract with Education ReEnvisioned BOCES out of Co Springs’ District 49 seems to be part of the strategy |

20.01.2026 01:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2026 Colorado State Legislative Session Preview (with Gov. Jared Polis)
2026 Colorado State Legislative Session Preview (with Gov. Jared Polis) The Colorado Sun’s politics team were live and in-person to preview the 2026 Legislative Session with some of our state’s lawmakers. Topics included what Coloradans can expect during the session…

The Colorado Sun's politics team sat down with some of the state lawmakers, including Gov. Jared Polis, and discussed the 2026 Legislative Session, what challenges could occur and what will happen with the budget deficit. Watch the video here: buff.ly/hXZs6J6 buff.ly/usPXnel

18.01.2026 16:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Super excited to be at the legislative Town Hall up in Ft. Collins. Easy drive from Erie today!

17.01.2026 18:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Invisible Hand: The Man Behind Colorado Schools' Efforts to Ban Trans Athletes Last week, dozens of Colorado school board members and administrators issued an open letter to the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA), making what they called “an urgent and…

CTR journalists reveal CO Springs Attorney Brad Miller's ties to involved public school districts and schools | DAVIS & RAGSDALE | Invisible Hand: The Man Behind Colorado Schools' Efforts to Ban Trans Athletes

17.01.2026 00:16 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.

Emails suggest Co Springs lawyer Brad Miller was part of plan to plant a test case for religious public schools, involving public education entities Education ReEnvisioned BOCES, Pueblo School District 70, Falcon/CO District 49, Riverstone Academy, and Forging Education. buff.ly/e5TAg6O

17.01.2026 00:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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DAVIS: The Plot to Take a Local School District to the Supreme Court If you look at some of the most significant Supreme Court cases on cultural issues coming out in the last three terms, where have they come from?” the attorney quizzed...

Co Springs Attorney Brad Miller, Colorado Leaders for Academic Success (CLAS), and Elizabeth's Dan Snowberger tied to using public education resources to achieve US Supreme Court rulings. DAVIS: The Plot to Take a Local School District to the Supreme Court buff.ly/kptL52J

17.01.2026 00:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge calls for dismissing Colorado school districts’ suit on transgender athletes’ rights The judge said in her recommendation that the districts didn’t have standing to challenge the state’s antidiscrimination law, or to sue on behalf of all their students.

Judge calls for dismissing Colorado school districts’ suit on transgender athletes’ rights, often referred to as "The CHSSA lawsuit." Other reporting documented CLAS and Attorney Brad Miller's ties to the districts, boards and schools that signed on. buff.ly/p4NxF86

16.01.2026 23:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Conservative Woodland Park school board member resigns In just over two months following the November elections that ushered in three new members to the Woodland Park RE-2 Board of Education, its longest-tenured member has stepped down. Former board…

Mick Bates was involved in the WPSD takeover from the beginning. Couldn’t handle being on the Board when voters took back control! Sad. Pathetic. Good riddance to a destructive ideologist. Conservative Woodland Park school board member resigns - Colorado Springs Gazette

16.01.2026 14:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Published today - a fact-based update on the Riverstone Academy closure and why it matters beyond one school. This isn’t about ideology—it’s about governance, public funding, and how church–state questions are being tested through contracts and oversight structures in Colorado. buff.ly/u7XMnP4

13.01.2026 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Colorado lawmakers will focus on maintaining ed spending during another tough budget year Members of the Colorado House and Senate education committees joined Chalkbeat Colorado during our annual Legislative Preview.

Hear directly from Colorado lawmakers who sit on the State House & Senate Education Committees. Their may focus will be maintaining ed spending during another tough budget year

13.01.2026 01:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stand up with other moms to protect our neighbors and stop ICE. Sign up here! Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent after dropping her child at school. They are using fear to silence us -- we will not let fear win. Join Red Wine & Blue and other mom groups to support one…

TONIGHT! Important Red, Wine & Blue virtual event to honor the late mom, Renee Good. Sign up here! buff.ly/Y0LDKeF

12.01.2026 20:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the…

Useful, timely info from the ACLU: Protesters’ Rights | American Civil Liberties Union

10.01.2026 20:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How the Colorado Schools Fund is setting up the case for vouchers | Colorado Newsline The Colorado Schools Fund is quietly playing a pivotal role in shaping the charter school movement and public acceptance of vouchers.

How the Colorado Schools Fund is setting up the case for vouchers | Colorado Newsline coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/17/c...

30.12.2025 17:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gov. Polis appoints JB Holston to lead Colorado’s higher education department Colorado entrepreneur and consultant JB Holston will lead the Colorado Department of Higher Education starting in January. He’s expected to help merge the department with other workforce programs…

Former Univ. of Denver Dean, entrepreneur & consultant, JB Holston, appointed by Polis to lead CO’s merge of higher ed, workforce development & labor agencies www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...

17.12.2025 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The New Scholarship Tax Credit: Potential Impacts on the Landscape of Federal K-12 Funding • Bipartisan Policy Center The federal tax credit for scholarships (FTCS) is a new federal tax approach to supporting K-12 education. Now that this has become law, BPC is interested to see how the credit will be applied and…

Worth your time to read! The Bipartisan Policy Center gives its take on the new Scholarship Tax Credit that Polis supports. The New Scholarship Tax Credit: Potential Impacts on the Landscape of Federal K-12 Funding •

13.12.2025 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MSN Riverstone Academy in Pueblo is the latest school to test the legal limits of government funding for religious schools and the separation between church and state

National coverage of a likely intentional drive to get a SCOTUS lawsuit. Who paved the way? Ken Witt, Brad Miller, Ann Ochs, Trevor Miller, Peter Hilts, Lori Thompson, and the Boards of D49, Pueblo D70, and ERBOCES. | This new public school in Colorado has a 'Christian foundation.' Can it last?

11.12.2025 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Angelica Givler-Viers, a 5th grade literacy teacher, speaks to the crowd outside Colorado Springs School District 11.

Dr. Angelica Givler-Viers, a 5th grade literacy teacher, speaks to the crowd outside Colorado Springs School District 11.

CO Springs literacy teacher, "Dr. G." was abruptly pulled out of the classroom and told they intend to fire her. Watch this coverage by NBC national news | Teachers protest in solidarity with suspended colleague NBC buff.ly/XQh1Cd4

11.12.2025 04:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Colorado can keep big money influence out of politics (Opinion)

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