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Invisible Hand: The Man Behind Colorado Schools’ Efforts to Ban Trans Athletes

Of the letter’s 80 signatories, 56 of them are current or recent clients of Miller’s firm. The signatories from El Paso County’s District 49, Pueblo’s District 70, Montezuma-Cortez, Elizabeth, and Woodland Park – totaling 19 signers – currently retain Miller’s legal services. Miller also has current or recent professional relationships with the signatories from nine of the ten charter schools on the list, and with Education ReEnvisioned BOCES, accounting for another 37 people

Supreme court hears Woodland Park Public Schools arguments | Pikes Peak Courier | gazette.com

The Colorado Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday concerning Woodland Park RE-2’s board of education’s efforts to “cure” an open meetings violation in 2022 on Tuesday. A parent of district students who filed the complaint is asking the court to reject a judicially created ‘cure’ doctrine and that the district should be held liable and subject to pay the attorney’s fees since they were ultimately found to have violated a meeting.
— Read on gazette.com/pikespeakcourier/supreme-court-hears-oral-arguments-for-woodland-park-public-schools-case/article_2d8b8c7b-523b-4ab1-a175-a46b24263813.html

Woodland Park school board halts charter school sale talks | Pikes Peak Courier | gazette.com

Following a City Council decision that lost Woodland Park’s school district over $3 million in annual funding, talks to sell district property to Merit Academy are now being reconsidered. Woodland Park RE-2 Interim Superintendent Aaron Salt began his tenure by addressing public fervor and beginning efforts to navigate a budget shortfall during the Board of Education’s regular meeting Wednesday night. Salt was announced as the interim superintendent in a statement released March 7 announcing former Superintendent Ken Witt’s resignation.

— Read on gazette.com/pikespeakcourier/ken-witt-exits-early-woodland-park-school-board-puts-charter-school-sale-talks-on-hold/article_63bb9f38-0026-11f0-a541-f334bcbf52f4.html

Woodland Park city council kills school funding sales tax | Pikes Peak Courier | gazette.com

Woodland Park City Council voted to repeal the sales tax for its public schools. The action came on the heels of a vote during a meeting that suspended the ordinance indefinitely to repeal a 1.09% local sales tax earmarked for public schools. The emergency ordinance and special meeting Monday came after a leaked agenda item for this week’s Woodland Park RE-2 upcoming school board meeting.
— Read on gazette.com/pikespeakcourier/in-reversal-woodland-park-city-council-kills-sales-tax-for-public-schools/article_94ebbfaa-fe1b-11ef-9c39-033fa0b6a539.html

DAVIS: ‘Bleed it Dry, Then Get the Hell Out’ – The Fight for Tax Dollars in Woodland Park Schools

The last few days have been pretty crazy for those following the Woodland Park School District. I was going to write up a summary, but Colorado Times Recorder reporter Logan Davis just published a piece that is much better written than anything I could write!

Read the full story here

The only thing I want to add to Logan’s piece though is that yesterday (March 11), the district announced that Ken Witt’s departure would be accelerated. Instead of his last day being April 15, it would be March 11, with Aaron Salt becoming interim superintendent for now. They’ve removed all discussion of the Merit Facility issue from the agenda for their March 12 board meeting and will tackle it in their April meeting instead.

Woodland Park city council kills school funding sales tax | Pikes Peak Courier | gazette.com

The emergency ordinance and special meeting Monday came after a leaked agenda item for this week’s Woodland Park RE-2  school board meeting. The resolution focused on the possible sale of the Merit Academy charter school building. In the event that the sales tax were to be lost, the sale of the building would be finalized within 60 days. 
— Read on gazette.com/pikespeakcourier/in-reversal-woodland-park-city-council-kills-sales-tax-for-public-schools/article_94ebbfaa-fe1b-11ef-9c39-033fa0b6a539.html

Woodland Park City Council votes to repeal sales tax that provides millions to school district each year | KRDO

the city said that it had come to the city council’s attention that “imminent action by the Woodland Park School Board is directly aimed at impairing the prerogative of this Council to act in the best interests of City voters with respect to the tax……all for the benefit of a single charter school in the district.”
— Read on krdo.com/news/2025/03/10/woodland-park-city-council-votes-to-repeal-sales-tax-that-provides-millions-to-school-district-each-year-2/

Woodland Park City Council votes unanimously to remove city sales tax

Council members said their decision was in response to several district actions they say have broken trust with the council and the community, including “insufficient” sales tax spending reports, closing and merging school buildings, and the recent consideration to sell the district’s charter school building to the charter school.
— Read on www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/woodland-park-city-council-changes-course-votes-unanimously-to-remove-city-sales-tax