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
Henrich in for you daniel. Grab a coat and grab your ice scraper. Shiri spear is watching the first show of the winter move in this morning. Shiri the crazy things is it is very far from cincinnati to solution and perhaps the chicago area to find those snowflakes. In terms of what is closest to us now. What we are going to see today is the quiet weather up ahead of it, but also the cold air moving into place that is going to prime us for snow at the so right now worcester at 32 degrees. Leominster at 34. Hollis, New Hampshire at 32. Tux burly, 32. 32 in natick and 32 freezing in walpole and boston good morning waking up to 34 degrees there. 32 in salisbury and the middle 30s growing pretty strong hanover to duxbury, 34 degrees. Sandwich, 37 sandwich, 37. Same in harwich. Problem is from here we dont see things warm up. It will be cool and also bright as the sun comes up. At noontime, winds gusting 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. It will be a breezy day. Temperatures 34 degrees. We are back do
About to move into plymouth and indications out toward scituate and hull and marshfield that we got just a couple flakes out there, they are very fine, it is going to be flurries, they are not going to be high impact at all but again, southeastern massachusetts, south shore down to the cape, these are the spots that keep a close eye on this morning. Luckily it is 36 in plymouth, 36 in hyannis, so it is above freezing, going to melt if it gets down to the ground and future cast through the day really does maintain the clouds and few flurries across the coastline and 38 to 42 , take you through the next round of rain coming up and first Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic. Julie, new accident . 128 southbound right before the braintree split. So thats slowing things down as you approach the split and head up to the expressway. 93 south sluggish through medford, route 1 in saugus, you can see still very high heavy volume as you propose lynn fells parkway. Here are live drive times,
What is the emergency . A role reversal on a miami highway. Why a driver pulled over an officer. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The Iowa Caucuses, the first vote of the 2016 president ial campaign is hours away. Today, candidates make their final pitch and campaigns will do their best to make sure their supporters actually show up. The final precaucus poll, shows donald trump with a fivepoint lead over ted cruz. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton is just three points ahead of Bernie Sanders. But because democrats can horse trade former Maryland Governor Martin Omalley could become a king maker. Marlie hall is in des moines. Tonight, voters will have their president and candidates will campaign until the very last moment. Hoping to dampen Donald Trumps momentum, texas senator ted cruz made his final pitch to iowa voters sunday. If everyone here brings nine other people to the caucuses tomorrow