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
Accumulations. Temperatures are currently in the 30s across most of the region. The wind is light from the southeast and will turn northwest as the day continues. Heres the dayplanner where we can expect cloudy skies and sprinkles today with a high of about 50 degrees. Jessica rae the hawkeyes got radar as we begin our tuesday. These will be light with minimal accumulations. Temperatures are currently in the 30s across most of the region. The wind is light from the southeast and will turn northwest as the day continues. Heres the dayplanner where we can expect the news on sunday theyll be playing stanford in the rose bowl on new years day thousands of that is if they can get tickets travel agencies were absolutely slammed yesterday. You can find tickets on sites like stubhub, but theyre going for over 500 dollars a piece. Thats not the only place you can find them. Both teams that are participating in the rose bowl were allotted 22,000 for the initial allotment, so those applications a
Being used by isis. Not a gun and its not a bomb. Were talking about Fake Passportsslready being used by the terror group to move people across borders. Authorities in the u. S. Have been told to watch out as abc brian ross reports. American authorities are warning the terror group may have infiltrated followers into this country with authentic looking passports it printed itself, almost impossible to detete. If isis h h been able to acquire legitimate passports or machines that create legitimate passports, this would represent a major Security Risk to the united states. Reporter reporter Authorities Say, as isis swept through major syrian cities last year, it was able to seize government Passport Printing machines of a kind used by major governments around the world. A Homeland Security investigations bulletin sent to Law Enforcement in the last week examples of suspect passports and said isis may have boxes full of blank passports. The bulletin warned that individuals from syria with
A 14yearold cedar rapids teen plans to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter today. Authorities say he shot and killed another teen after their two rival groups threatened each otheheon social media andd over text message. Police say robert humbles killed 15yearold Aaron Richardson. Humbles also plans to plead guilty on twtwother charges. Altogether he faces 25 years in prison. He would be in a juvenile facility until he turns 18. A judge would then decide whether to lease him or make him serve the rest of his prison sentence. On september 6th, two rival groups met near redmond park. Court documents show humbles fired his gun and hit Aaron Richardson in the abdomen. Richards then ran to a house in the 300 block of 16th street soututast. From there, First Responders took him to a cedar rapids hospital where he died after surgery. Cedar Rapids Police say Violent Crime has gone down over the past yeye. Chief wayne jermanan gave that report during a public night. He says the number of Vio
Spring. Manynyre the first in their family to go to college. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a nice december day well see more sunshine than yesterday, with highs up around 50 degrees in degrees above seasonal normals. The m md air keeps right on going into the the weekend, and its at that point that the pattern will shift to a more active one. At this point, this storm uystem continues to lk like mainly rain in the area with a transition over to some light snow on the cold air can get here. The bigger issue may very well be heavy rainfall and possible thunderstorm s. A widespread 1 2 of rain is likely this weekend, which may cause creeks and streams to risewhile next week is cooler, we still are running above average. Enjoy your wednesday to day mostly sunny high 4753 winds w 515 alo 49 dbq q 9 iow 50tonight partly cloudy low 3541 iow 56tomorrow ni