Denver school board approve redistricting map | News [Video]

The historic Five Points neighborhood — known as the “Harlem of the West — will remain in District 4 represented by the sole Black director serving on the Denver Public Schools’ Board of Education.

The board on Thursday night took two votes that pitted three proposed redistricting maps against each other.

Melissa Rosales, senior program manager for the district’s Board and Community Planning, pulled the maps in the order directors voted on out of a blue baseball cap.

Map C — which was favored in two voting rounds by five of the seven directors — won the board’s approval.

The Five Points neighborhood has been touted as Denver’s oldest and most diverse and is represented by Director Michelle Quattlebaum.

Thursday’s redistricting vote was required by state law after the decennial census, the last in 2020, for the purpose of equally dividing each of five districts.

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