Six Degrees of Brad Miller

Play Six Degrees of Brad Miller. We will start you off:

Jeffco School Board's new attorney Brad Miller, who was hired in a backroom deal, also owns a company called Charter School Solutions,  co-owner of the business is Denise Mund.  She has power over creating and approving new Charter schools. She spent approx.13 years running the division in the Colorado Dept of Education that oversees Charter Schools.

Brad Miller's brother-in law is Paul Lundeen, chairman of the State Board of Education, and candidate for the state legislature.  By all accounts, Miller has been able to secure some lucrative contracts dealing with Colorado education.

Here is a classic example of how Brad Miller's Charter School Solutions works.

 On May 2, 2013, Miller and Mund attended the Colorado Digital Board of Cooperative Eduction meeting. This group controls online learning.

At that meeting, Miller and Mund have a contract approved to be paid up to $10,000 a month for their services. Immediately after the contract is approved, Miller presents the board with a Conflict of Interest Policy, which they adopt?

The meeting continues, with Miller setting up the next meeting agenda and telling this board what they should be working on.  (He does the same with the Jeffco and Thompson School Districts). Looks like he is in control of yet another aspect of our educational system. Read it here.

http://www.cdboces.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CD-BOCES-Bd-Mtg-Minutes-050213.pdf 

Smooth move, creating the Conflict of Interest policy, so you don't have a Conflict of Interest, and then you get to decide what the board will work on at future meetings. This sounds like a dangerous situation to me.

Recap:  Miller has the Jeffco contract for up to $7,000 a month, he has the Thompson School District contract with no financial constraints.He has the Digital Board's $10,000 a month contract.  According the the Loveland Reporter Herald, he represents an additional 20 Colorado school boards, including Falcon School District and 16 charter schools.
 
None of the contracts he has were put out to bid, they were secured through deals that were generally not done in the public eye. 

ARE YOU COMFORTABLE GIVING THIS MAN SO MUCH POWER OVER COLORADO KIDS' EDUCATION?   NOT TO MENTION HOW MUCH TAXPAYER MONEY HE IS RACKING IN!