The dispute over what replaces it, though, that is just beginning. Male thank you for coming out to our smarter balance assessment results meeting. Jessica School Officials in San Francisco are explaining the many changes happening in education. Male were implementing new curriculum to go with the new standards, to go with the new tests. Male and do they revisit those sections . Jessica and a new, different way to evaluate schools. State law now requires a move away from standardized test scores. Male it needs to be more than justinclude more than just the academics. Jessica for 15 years, the api, the academic performance index, has been the yardstick for school success. Its a three digit number based on test scores. Take this Blue Ribbon School in the east bay. Its api was 945 out of 1,000. A Suburban School in the peninsula, 831. A High Poverty School in San Francisco, 726. Eric it gives one number. And its nice because you can take that number and compare it to another number. But r
50 Miles Per Hour , we did have some sporadic damage and rain fall totals almost an inch. The temperatures plummeted as those temperatures moved on through, from the mid seventies afternoon the sun will come back out and rain fall adding up in dallas the wettest year to date on record. Nearly fifty one inches of rain , they only need two more inches of rain to make it their wettest on record. Im meteorologis t mike seidel mesquite texas, east of downtown dallas. Now lets head west to castle rock colorado in a snow storm and even a blizzard in parts of colorado heres leanne gregg. Here in castle rock, south of denver, this blowing snow has caused traffic problems all morning long. I25 behind me is shutdown to the south of here in both directions because of two jackknifed semis and 100 to 150 vehicles being stranded because of tha. Its just one indication of just travel has been. The biggest problems are to the south of the denver metro area and in the eastern part of the state heading i
Around d dota county will meetet to vote on how those funds will be used. Dakota city decided they will use those funds to help finance the new fire station with an estimated cost of around 4 million dollars. We have a very strong, a very good Fire Department that serves a very large area. Weve got dakota city, weve got the rural district, which in itself is a large area and so i think its important that they have a building that meets their eds so that the citytynd the rural area are all well served, said dakota city city administrator, alyssa silhacek. The prosed new spot for the station is right off broadway street in dakota city. Theyre this spring. It was a gloomy day in siouxland but what does the rest of the week have in store . For that well toss it over to chief meteorologis ron demers. Even some rumbles of thunder and then we stayed gloomy, drizzly, and foggy. Rain will be on the increase again tonight and good chances of rain, and maybe even some thunderstorms, will last thr
Weeks. There is a detour posted. For a closer look at the detour, youll find it inside this story at ktivdotcom. A project thats decades in the making is in the home stretch. Tomorrow, two communities, sioux city and fort dodge, will celebrate work on the final 40miles of highway 20 between early and moville, iowa. Work will widen that stretch of highway to fourlanes. Work on that stretch began in 2014. Its scheduled to be done in the fall of 2018. Iowa Governor Terry branstad and Lieutenant Governor kim reynolds will host the events. The sioux city event is set for the Sioux City Convention center from 2 to 3 30pm. Its been a dreary day. Is that going to change anytime soon . For that, well toss it over to chief meteorologis t ron demers for the first look at our forecast. Weather adlib rain moved through early today with even some rumbles of thunder and then we stayed gloomy, drizzly, and foggy. Rain will be on the increase again tonight and good chances of rain, and maybe even some
Where it could go, but the biggest concentration is to hook it to the left at the eastern seaboard, but a lot of models are heading it toward north or south carolina, that would be great news, because we wouldnt have the direct impact but some models are sending it up to the midatlantic. Saturday night into sunday morning, 1 to 3 inches of rain with heavy rain close to the coast and sunday into mon, we could see several inches possible depending on how close joaquin gets to our area, well have more in the accuweather forecast and well divulge more into joaquin. While we continue to track the changing storm, people at the jersey shore is getting ready for whatever is coming their way. David henry is working the Team Coverage live from Atlantic City. Reporter sharrie, people along the shore here are watching and waiting and they already have a rough surf turning up out there for days along the jersey shore, thanks to another storm system moving up the coast and they dont need a hurricane