Six online schools, a $15 million balance, one district: What D49 took on when it dissolved ERBOCES
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
Five days before the School District 49 board voted to dissolve Education ReEnvisioned BOCES (Boards of Cooperative Educational Services), the withdrawal that had pushed the co-op to the brink was deferred.
Pikes Peak State College had signaled it would leave the co-op effective Aug. 15, a move that would have dropped ERBOCES to a single member and made it ineligible to operate. Then ERBOCES produced a 2013 memorandum of understanding requiring a year's notice, and on Aug. 12 the college indicated it would stay through summer 2027 to honor that notice.
D49 dissolved the co-op anyway, on Aug. 17.
The reversal settled little, because the state had already raised a deeper question about the MOU. The same agreemen...