Could be on a late Start Schedule mondays, starting next school year. Tonight, the school board listened to concerns people have about the proposed school calendar. Right now, students get out early on select days. You can see those days highlighted on this years the proposed calendar shows that instead of early later on monday mornings. That would be every monday when classes are in session, as you can see here. Kcrg tv nines Jill Kasparie was at the School Board Meeting and joins us now. Jill, some parents say the new schedule would throw a wrench into theirs . Thats right parents, teachers and Community Members had a lot to say about this calendar. After two hours of discussion the board voted to table the decision. We have been working on the since october. The calendar thats been in the works for months didnt move forward monday night. Board members halted the process after hearing from passionate parents, teachers and Community Members. This new schedule, proposed schedule was not very well thought out. The School System is here for the intent of our children. The next generation, not for the teachers. I understand the need for professional learning, its important, we need to do it, but i dont think the morning is the time to do it. I think we are putting a large inconvenience on a lot of parents and a lot of children. The plan would give teachers time every monday morning to discuss students. School leaders say that frequent professional development leads to better results in the classroom. The plan includes supervision provided students who come to school at the regular time and bus transportatio n for those who get there for that late start. Superintendent brad buck says its vital to make changes. One of the things we have is Cr Community School District we are not meeting the learning needs of each and every child. So in order to meet the learning needs of each and every child, its going to cause us to behave in different ways. But the board decided this calendar wasnt the way just yet. Members decided to reexamine ares of concern. 4 33 54 we cant please everyone, but ive heard a lot of voices saying you know we need to go back and rethink this again. Many of those who spoke up tonight say they understand and appreciate the need for professional learning, but say it needs to happen in a different way. Well keep an eye on when that calendar moves forward again beth and bruce . President ial candidates are pushing hard in iowa with one week to go before the caucuses. Tonight, all three Democratic Candidates answered questions from caucusgoers in des moines. Cnns Kim Hutcherson reports. Cnns democratic town hall in des moines. After a brief introduction, moderator chris cuomo handed the stage to men and women trying to decide which candidate to support. Bernie sanders was the first in the hotseat and faced a question about his embrace of the democratic socialist label the ideas i am talking about are not radical ideas. So what democratic Socialism Means to me in its essence, is that we can not continue to have a govt dominated by the billionaire class and Congress Works for people on top while ignoring working with tough questions about his Healthcare Plan and how it would be paid for yes, we will raise we will raise taxes. Yes we will. Joked about his third place standing with only three of us in this democratic primary, theres only one of us who can still upset the apple cart. Hillary clinton who has a sixpoint lead in iowa, according to the latest poll took the stage to face voters last. I understand that you get into the arena and you are going to get pummeled and pushed and criticized. I wouldnt be doing it if i didnt think it was progress weve made under president obama. Its up to democratic voters now to choose a candidate that best represents their interests. Im Kim Hutcherson reporting. Clinton will hold two get out the caucus events in eastern iowa tomorrow. In decorah, starting at 2 15 in the afternoon. Clinton will then speak to supporters at the Gallagher BluedornPerforming Arts Center in cedar falls. That gets underway at 5 45. Iowa voters today election season. The texas senator spoke to more than a hundred people at the Heartland Acres Agribition Center in independence. He attacked president obama on several fronts, saying if he becomes president , hell repeal, what he called, the president s illegal executive actions. 1 221 40 im convinced the greatest legacy of barack obama is gonna be a new generation of leaders in the Republican Party who actually stand for freedom, who stand for the constitution, who stand for the judeochristian values that built this nation into a shining city on a hill tomorrow, donald trump takes his president ial campaign to the university of iowa campus. The republican frontrunner will speak to caucusgoers at the field house. The event gets underway at 7 30 pm. Earlier in the day, republican Carly Fiorina will hold a town hall at the University Club in iowa city. Thats at eleven tomorrow morning. Former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering an independent run for that he plans to make a decision in the first week of march. His decision will be based on where the primaries stand after super tuesday on march 1st. Stay with kcrgtv9, as results come in on caucus night. Well have live coverage from des moines and across eastern iowa, starting at 8 oclock on kcrg 9point2. And well have a complete wrap of the caucuses on the kcrgtv9 news at 10. The head of medicaid in iowa says shes confident the states privatized program will be ready by march first. Today, mikki stier of the Iowa Department of Human Services told lawmakers about improvements the state is making to the managed care program. She said about 45 percent of Medicaid Service providers have signed up with all three of the private companies that will oversee the program. She also said the program has provided more information to patients since the original january first deadline. Today, the republican controlled house in des kthrough 12 schools by 2 percent. The bill now heads to the democraticmajority senate, where many lawmakers have said the proposed increase is not enough. The issue is expected to go back and forth between chambers before it heads to special legislative meetings. Egg farms in iowa are slowly recovering from last years bird flu outbreak. The Us Department of agriculture says the state had about 38 million egg laying hens in december. Thats up eight percent from the previous month. But its still down about 37 percent from the same time last year. Millions of birds died by euthanasia to stop the spread of the bird flu. Just a few months ago, fans were buzzing about the hawkeyes top10 ranking in football. Now, its mens basketball. Fran mccafferys squad is now ranked number 3 in the latest ap top 25 poll released today. That is behind oklahoma and highest ranking since 1987. They are 163, with a perfect conference record after wins over rutgers and purdue. Scott saville will have reaction from the team, later in sports. The city of dubuque is working to connect people with affordable financial services. Hear how a partnership could help benefit low income households in the city. Low income households in dubuque could soon dubuque is one of eight cities nationwide selected to take part in the Financial Inclusion systems and city leadership project. Its aimed to help cities connect lowincome families with reasonably priced financial services. Kcrgtv9s Dubuque Bureau chief Katie Wiedemann joins us now. Katie, why do city leaders say this is important . They say there is a trickle up effect. If more people know how to better manage their money, fewer people will depend on government and social services to get by. And thats good for the whole community. For many young people, opening their First Bank Account and learning to balance a check book is a coming of age right of passage. But city leaders say some children growing up in poverty, never get that lesson. A lot of them didnt have that opportunity, so here they are a young adult out of high school, maybe getting that first job thats minimum wage and theyre and so begins the cycle, dregne says, of living pay check to pay check, at best. Theyre not using traditional banks or Credit Unions for their financial services. They are using Check Cashing and pawn shops, those sort of things that have high fees. The Financial Inclusion program aims to connect young people ages 16 to 24 who arent working or going to school with Financial Experts from banks and Credit Unions. Experts will explain how best manage and even save money. Dregne says that access to that information alone can help break the poverty cycle. What goes wrong when you dont make your rent or car payment. Maybe you dont make it to work, maybe you become unemployed. All of those require social Service Support and all of those things cost the community money. The Financial Inclusion program is paid for with grant money from the National League of information about how to get involved along with this story on kcrg dot com. Live in the dubuque newsroom, Katie Wiedemann, kcrgtv9. Millions of people along the east coast are still clearing snow out of their neighborhoods after the massive weekend blizzard. The winter storm dumped as much as 40 inches of as an area of low pressure pulls to the northeast the light snow moves east of the state. As tuesday heads our way stronger northwest winds are expected. Highs fall from the 30s the past couple of days into the 20s through wednesday. Some flurries are possible Late Wednesday night but should not cause any looking ahead some milder weather approaches for the later part of the work week. Have a great night tonight snow likely low 1925 winds nw 1525tomorrow cloudy, sct. Flurries high 2228 winds nw 1525tomorrow night cloudy, sct flurries low 1521 winds nw 515wednesday mostly cloudy m cloudy, sct. Flurries high 34 low 22 friday mostly cloudy high 38 rain snow high 39 low 28 sunday areas of fog drizzle high 37 low 28 monday chance of people are still digging out after the massive snow storm and blizzard that buried much of the east coast over the weekend. Airports are strugglinnto get back to f fl service, while some roads are still closed. Abcs Elizabeth Hur reports. This snow plow. No match for the reco breaking snow in new york city. Where many secondary streets in queens. Remain buried in feet of snow. Nats up i dont know why they forgot about us. In all. 80 million americans on the east cocost. Were blasted by the blizzaza of 2016. Glendary, West Virginia slammed with 42 inches. The snow. So heavy. The roofs of this church in pennsylvania and this apartment complex in virginia. Gave way. The storm. Not only dangerous but deadly. Claiming dozens of lives. Including this new jersey mother and her oneyearold son. Killed by Carbon Monoxide poisoning inside their car. The exhaust blocked by snow. Sot fire sept. Officer any snow that covers your tail pipe, you want to shovel in washington. This is what Reagan National looked like in the middle of the blizzard. And now. Sunshine and heavy machinery melting and moving all that snow. But service will be limited for at least another day. Along the jersey shore. Instead of snow. Residents are dealing with flooding. Some residents calling this. Worse than super storm sandy. Elizabeth hur on camera here in new york. Were told the process of piling and melting all this snow underway. But some snow mounds like these. Theyre almost as tall as i am and im 5 foot 5. So officials say. Their work is far from over. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. Coming up next, scott has this weeks golden klutz awards. And the cyclones and jhawks square off on big monday at hilton. Stay with kcrg. E cyclones were loooong for tonight on big monday against rockckhalk jhawk. Students camped out for seven days for this game. Freezing their petunias off. It was much warmer inside. 4th ranked kansas got off to a great start this Devonte Graham trey gave the j hawks a 10 point lead. But they didnt get back on d and jemeel mckay beats them down court for the duce. And then abdul nader hit back to back triples to cut t t lead to six. But with time running down in the half. Monte morris gets swatted and that triggers the break and frank mason beats the buzzer to give ku a 4336 lead at the break. Iowa states heated up from behind the arc in the second half matt thomas tied the game at 53. And then burton gave e cyclones the lead with a little string music. And then here they come on the break the ally ooop to nader for the seven point lead. And a big night from morris who had 21 and 9 assist. With the bucket and one for a 10 point lead and fourth ranked kansas 8572 to raise their recoco to 53 in the big 12. We have trust and belief in our system and coach prohm is leading us in the right way. Sot 10 oc leading us thth right way y the hawkeyes are ranked 3rd in the ap poll and 4th in the coaches poll. It is the highest they have been ranked since 1987. But the layers know its early and they still have a lot of work to do. We have always believed we were a great team. I think we stay away from what we are ranked because the only ranking that matters is at the end of the year. We play on the road at maryland thursday that right their will keep you grounded. 17 oc eep you gounded football news. Iowa quarterback c. J. Beathard had surgery on a sports hernia. They said it went well and it will take 6 weeks to rehab. His status for spring ball is up in the air. And finally its monday time to get stupid and andrea i love those ufc weigh in stair downs they are so mean to each other not. Thats a good way to soften up your opponent with a bouquqt of flowers. Its one thing to miss one bunny but to miss back to back. He hate it when you get rejected by the rim. And plays like that will put you sleep i wander if he knows the camera is in him. Probably not hes a sleep. His eyes are opening. And before when you are guarding jerememlinn his hair is so spiky he might popo you in the eye with it. Another look whatch out for spiky hair. And sure does seem like the aiming where it counts. Way they try to save the ball. It happens a lot like that. Best way to make sure you foul someone tackle them and pull l eir shorts down. St full court shot goes out to tony rex of buzzer. Chancing another look you cant get much farther than that lesson of the w wk if you are trying to squat 855 pounds make sure you fasten the weights on first. Or this could happen. Again please that cant be a little embarrassing at the gym and finally i had a great time taking on reda from tipton in a shooting contest. Thanks scott. One last look at the forecast, joe. As an area of low pressure pulls to the northeast the light snow tuesday heads are and now Abcs Jimmy Kimmel live. 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