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The Poudre School District is considering an idea of consolidating some of its schools as figures from the Colorado Department of Education show some of its non-charter schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade declined by 239 students from 2022-23 to 2023-24. The Coloradoan reporter Kelly Lyell joined KUNC "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on the story.

We discuss the redistricting dust-up in Weld County and how new federal regulations on "forever chemicals" will affect Colorado.

Savanah Wolfson doesn鈥檛 mince words as she describes what some people in her small hometown of Oak Creek think of joining a new congressional district stretching all the way to Boulder County. 鈥淭hey are mad as hell. They are mad as hell,鈥� Wolfson says. 鈥淓specially the ranchers.鈥�

Greeley resident Stacy Suniga says she has always felt like she was living in a poorly drawn congressional district.

Bob Beauprez knows more than any Coloradan how much pressure 鈥� and opportunity 鈥� a new congressional seat can create.

The Colorado Supreme Court has approved new maps of legislative districts that will affect statehouse races for the next decade. The new boundaries appear to give Democrats an edge in next year鈥檚 elections to determine which party controls the legislative agenda at the Capitol.

Calling it a "watershed moment," the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday unanimously approved new congressional district boundaries for Colorado that were drawn for the first time by an independent commission instead of the state legislature.

A politically diverse committee that has spent half a year vetting the boundaries for Colorado鈥檚 U.S. House districts voted 11-1 just before midnight on Tuesday to send a map to the state Supreme Court.

A new draft of Colorado鈥檚 congressional district map was released late Friday. Unlike the previous preliminary map, this one uses official population data from the 2020 census count instead of estimates. That, along with public comments from 36 meetings in July and August, has led to some major changes in the map鈥檚 proposed districts, particularly the new eighth district Colorado gained due to a population increase counted in the 2020 census.

After months of waiting, Colorado finally got the local Census population counts needed to draw congressional and state general assembly electoral districts on Thursday. The massive delay has caused a lot of unexpected problems for the state鈥檚 brand new independent redistricting commissions. This new set of local data show the ways Colorado鈥檚 population has really changed over the last decade.