And includes things like how many students are on grade level in math and reading and closing the achievement gap for students who are low income, dont speak english as a first language or are in special education. For high schools only, Graduation Rates are considered and student attendance and staff retention round out the rest of what goes into a schools grade. Its a grade some schools are celebrating, and others think are downright wrong. This is a story of two schools Solon High School and Vinton Shellsburg middle school. Both are in eastern iowa, both have populations that are mostly white and speak english, but after that, the similarities end. Only 7 of Solon High Schools students are low income. Vintonshellsburg middle schools poverty percentage is four times that. Solon has about 8 percent of its students in special education. Vintonshellsburg has 15 thats almost that more than 92 percent of its students are meeting math and reading expectations according to the state test. V
Into the 50s. The south half of the area will likely touch the lower 60s as well. Today will also come along with lots of wind with gusts to 45mph possible. Tomorrow is very much the better half of this warmup with highs well into the 50s, but with wind under 15mph. By sunday, a cold front comes along, but with a significant dent in the snowpack, if not complete elimination, we really wont get that cold with upper 40s likely. Next week still appears pretty quiet with only periodic bouts of clouds the most likely result. Highs will average in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Have a terrific weekend today m sunny, windy, mild high 5662 winds w 2030 g 45 alo 55 dbq 55 iow 61 tonight mostly clear w 3440 ndsw00 alo 35 dbq 35w 38 tomorrow mostly sunny, mild high 5359 winds w 510 alo 55 dbq 53 the next round of preliminary voting for president ial candidates is tomorrow. The South Carolina primary for republican candidates and the nevada caucus for Democratic Candidates both happen tomorrow. Both
Brad wx wall weather adlib today was another one of those days with gray skies and chilly winds, but a change is coming sunnier and warmer weather is on its way the clouds will likely stick around most of tonight, but those nw winds will be diminishing down to 5 10 mph later tonight. While the clouds may still be around as we start friday, we should see plenty of afternoon sunshine and milder sw winds. Both of these will help to warm us up into the mid 40s. Even warmer weather will push in here for the weekend sunny skies are expected all day saturday with highs reaching the low 60s in central iowa. Local 5 news at 10 in stephanie tonight. Three people confirmed killed dozen injured in described as a workplace shooting in kansas. Stephanie 2shot tonight, there are still many questions as to happened. Stephanie jack 2shot and im jack miller. Heres what we know so far about tonights shooting. Our abc affiliate in witicha, kake tv, is reporting that Police Identified the shooter as cedric
Me being on the board of lehman brothers. Ceos and the job creators work the candidates werent just taking aim at eachother. They also targeted the Democratic Front runner. 26 3326 55 last week Hillary Clinton went before a committee. She got exposed as a liar Drake University students. Together to watch tonights debate. While they varied on who won. They were pretty unanimous about who didnt. Channel 13s mike dasilva joins us. I can tell you the students were not impressed with the way the moderators conducted themselves. The students i spoke with said the moderators seemed flustered and didnt do a good job of Fact Checking. The drake students however were Fact Checking as the debate was going on. With their laptops, and smart phones, while monitoring what was being said on twitter and using the political commentary app sidewire. Democrats, independents, and republicans all had their own takeaways from the debate. 10 54 5910 55 20 with the democrats, it seems like they focus a lot mor
And im dan winters. Thanks for joining us. Niatrate levels in the Raccoon River this year reached record niatrate levels in the Raccoon River this year reached record highs. Forcing Des Moines Water Works to spend more money than ever before on making the water safe. And the safety comes at a cost. And it means you will see an increase on your water bill channel 13s Jodi Whitworth joins us in the studio with more. Yeah dan. Its a bit of a bummer of water works customers. Yesterday the board approved a 10 percent rate increase meaning customers can expect about a 2 dollar and 50 cent increase on their monthly bill the increase will impact des moines and polk county. And will likely cause a spike in rates in neighboring suburbs who purchase their water supply from water works. Water works ceo says iowans are actually using less water before. But the water from the Raccoon River is the dirtiest its ever been. That means its taking more manpower and money to keep the water, we do use, clea