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Low-wage industries continue to lag far behind pre-pandemic levels.

Two Longmont residents are part of independent redistricting commissions

Under current law, school districts must allow parents and caregivers to possess and administer cannabis-based medicine on school grounds. School principals have discretion whether to allow school personnel to posses and administer medicine on school grounds. The new bill would remove that discretion.

The number of Coloradans currently hospitalized with COVID-19 has spiked to 341 from 283 just three days ago, according to state data. While hospitalizations have steadily fallen over the last several months since peaking at 1,995 on Dec. 2, officials fear that the decline has leveled off more quickly than they’d hoped.

Rather than administer the suite of standardized tests that students typically take, Colorado education officials will seek a waiver from federal testing requirements. If successful, there will be no science or social studies tests, and students would take either a math or a literacy test, but not both. The tests won’t be used to evaluate teacher performance or rate schools. 

Colorado schools are funded based on enrollment. The legislation approved by Polis ensures Colorado school districts will receive the money they originally expected for the 2020-21 school year despite about 30,000 fewer students showing up, a 3.3% decline in enrollment. 

Senate Bill 21-182 seeks to minimize student run-ins with police, boost district reporting of discipline practices and create positive, alternative ways to address student behavior.

The 27 inches (68 centimeters) that had fallen by the end of Sunday at Denver International Airport on the plains east of downtown made it the fourth biggest snowfall in the city's history, according to the National Weather Service in Denver. 

Colorado is one of 15 states where parents can opt out of vaccines for philosophical reasons and vaccine immunization rates in schools in those states may provide an unfiltered look at COVID vaccine refusals.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research illustrates how the stage is set for a two-tiered recovery. The public's worry about the virus has dropped to its lowest point since the fall, before the holidays brought skyrocketing cases into the new year. But people still in mourning express frustration at the continued struggle to stay safe.