The president went so far as to call the change a christmas miracle. Critics have said no child left behind gave too much power to washington in controlling state education policy. Earlier today, we talked to dr. Paul gausman, superintendent of sioux city schools gausman says he feels there was more good than bad in no child left behind, but there isis lot of anticipation and excitement leading up to these changes. Mostly in regards to standdized testing but the challenges with no child left behind have to do with assessments, every state takes a different approach to assessments, students perform at Different Levels many states like iowa continue to change the form of the assessment, the reporting of the sessment,so its very difficult to discover, but the federal governrnnt still has to underer the previous lawaw hand out these negaitive designations to different schools and different districts based on their performance. Deborah saying it involved and not enough teaching. It also had
Deborah plus. Are you struggling to pay your rent every month . Well according to a new report. Youre not alone. These stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Deborah good morning and thank you for joining us. Im deborah souverain. Jessica rae has the morning off. But before we begin. I want to explain what we are wearing. As you can see. Scott and i are christmas sweaters on the show this morning its all in support of the crossroads homeless shelter. Here in sioux city. 100 percent of the money raised through sweater sales goes directly to the shelter. So join us. By picking up your own ugly sweater to help the homeless this Holiday Season. Deborah and now to the latest on the San Bernardino terror investigation. Searching for small lake near the scene of the massacre. After killers likely visited the lake on shooting that left 14 people dead. Abcs lana zak has the latest. David bowdich, fbi assistant director we will leave no stone unturned, the fbi is exhaustively searching a s