Youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 9am in north east australia, where whats being described as a Monster Cyclone is due to make landfall over the next few hours. Tens of thousands of people, including tourists, have been evacuated from coastal areas amid warnings of Winds Gusting up to 250km h and dangerous tidal surges. Trees are already being blown down by the wins. Cyclone debbie has been upgraded to a category four storm, one below the most violent, and is forecast to be the most powerful storm to hit the state of queensland for six years winds. Lets go to Hywel Griffith, who is joining us from townsville. By the looks at it its the Calm Before The Storm and everyone is saying Cyclone Debbie could be as devastating as cyclone yasi in 2011 . Yes. They are having to prepare for the worst here, the wind is picking up a bit as we get closer to the impact time, you do to be around Lunchtime Australian thai in
In the community, are you seeing more registration on that end that maybe you as ncla, and the community from those kind of groups and would those increases be happening there . And can you be more specific when you talk about weaker investment . Are we talking how much money dont you have . How much money isnt the Community Getting now that was getting before . How many millions is not there . And is that did that money evaporate or go to other groups and are they in the community . Provocative questions for the end. All right. The Koch Brothers. So, look, its a free world. Right . Folks should be courting the Latino Community itch think theres been investments on that end and libra is trying to educate latino busy a conservative agenda, and thats fine. In terms of how many Voter Registration is theyve done issue dont know because i dont know what their numbers are. But to me, its we are not afraid about having a debate over ideas. Thats fine. And we have had libra at our conference a
Standards that asks our students to do much more complex thinking and as the board has taken a strong stance an decreasing the amount of testing unnecessary testing in our city halls that is an excellent example an archaic testing not in modern time i want to thank the staff for supporting that as well. Commissioner haney i want to say thank you to ms. Fewer for bringing this forward i remember this of the first brought about but i think without a doubt at the canyon core changes what we should be testing for 12 graders it makes that more irrelevant i want to make sure we a lot internally it seem like there is agreement we will like this is not an ascertainment sunshine we should be doing if were stoougz it has in the past superintendent evaluation and in other places where it is were looking at the process so we may move forward and want to access an indicator or measure if at all if the agreement on the board has wealthy so ms. Wynns. Thank you. Im supportive of this ive not been sup
Emergencies like the miles outbreak if you have a perm belief you cant sit in the Council School or things of that nature so this is a serious issue and one the commissioners should weigh in on i ask you to urge you to come to the moot on the 18 in my opinion it is like first of all we recommend changing the policy that comes to the board it would have to come to the board but noement prior to that whatever input in the progress we urge you to speak to us or come to the month to month. Next for the report from the building ground and Services Committee ms. Fewer. Thank you. I chaired the meeting because ms. Mendozamcdonnell had a family emergency so we had one action item which was in support of the utility reduction in the San Francisco Unified School District titled we had an update so we had 3 informational items woman an update on the launch of the online permit application and fee schedule id like to thank Elizabeth Lee and others for working on this it is online and people can ac
For strong support were in a intriel new era of learning the cognitive learning for our students and continuing to administer this is like filling your gas tank with a horsewhip it is miss aligned it is the common core is a deeper set of standards that asks our students to do much more complex thinking and as the board has taken a strong stance an decreasing the amount of testing unnecessary testing in our city halls that is an excellent example an archaic testing not in modern time i want to thank the staff for supporting that as well. Commissioner haney i want to say thank you to ms. Fewer for bringing this forward i remember this of the first brought about but i think without a doubt at the canyon core changes what we should be testing for 12 graders it makes that more irrelevant i want to make sure we a lot internally it seem like there is agreement we will like this is not an ascertainment sunshine we should be doing if were stoougz it has in the past superintendent evaluation and