What that fake grade is telling us. School letter grades are out here and statewide. News 6 investigates why this year they dont reveal much about how your Childs School is actually doing. Good evening, this is news 6 at 7 00, getting results. Im lisa bell. Im ginger gadsden. Im julie broughton. And in a few minutes, we will take you live to tampa where Donald Trumps campaign has come to the i4 corridor for the first time. It is a packed crowd there. Yes, it is. Weve had Sachelle Saunders reporting there from all afternoon and we have more coming up. Our top story right now, theyre the ranking schools and counties brag about or try to improve. This years School Letter grades are out but news 6 investigated the grades might not mean as much as they did in years past. News 6 reporter Eric Sandoval explains why. Were here at Rainbow Elementary School in Winter Springs, a school known for its highperformance. We actually checked with the department of education, found an arated school since back in 1999. It got an a today, too. We found out it may not mean much. The grades are part of our rigged accountability system that mean nothing to me. Cindy hamilton is with the group opt out orlando and has a beef with floridas standardized tests for years. This year, its based on a flawed test and it does not include all of the information that we would normally see. You can see all nine School Districts in Central Florida scored nothing lower than a b, even though the formula to get the grades was flawed, state leaders say they were forced to release them under state law. Orange County School superintendent Barbara Jenkins grades really dont mean much. She told news 6 the grades are of limited value at this point and are viewed as partial grades because they lack critical components such as learning games. Because of that, she told schools not to brag about their grades on school marquees. Instead, she told them to celebrate teachers like these schools did. Hamilton applauded that move. Tell me about the teachers who struggled to reach kids who need them the most. Tell me about principals who stand up for the kids. Some of those good grades could be in jeopardy. We found out some of the teachers here are only working the hours their contract calls for. No overtime. Theyre trying to push the districts hand in contract negotiations for more money. Were in Winter Springs tonight, Eric Sandoval, news 6. Tonight orlandos police chief says the nightclub where 10 people were shot and two killed has closed down permanently. Police arrested jose lopez moments after the shooting. He was one of the 300 people at the nightclub on universal boulevard. According to court documents, the 23yearold was carrying a gun. While it is unclear if he had any involvement in the actual shooting, chief mina says the gun should have never gotten past club security. They did have security measures in place. Out of those measures had lapses or the security staff was not properly trained. According to the arrest affidavit, lopez told investigators he was not patted down or checked with a metal detector wand as he entered glitz. There were rumors the shooting was between two rival gangs. Chief mina would not comment on that, only saying more arrests would be made soon. At this hour were waiting to learn when a captured escapee will be brought back to florida. We broke the news at 4 00 that he cut off his g. P. S. Monitor three weeks ago and disappeared from a state work release program. He was with his girlfriend, natasha quigley, and her 3yearold son. Bullock and quigley are both facing charges. The child is safe and is now in protective custody. Election 2014 6, donald trump has come to the i4 corridor. Heres a live look from the usf sun dome in tampa. Thousands of people are there to cheer on the billionaire reality star. There were also some protesters outside. We still have a month until the florida primary. But trump is in the lead here in the sunshine state. Recent polls also show he would beat both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a general election matchup in florida. We will continue to stay on top of that for you there. The next republican primary is in South Carolina on february 20th. But expect to see many more candidates of both parties in coming weeks. We go to the polls on march 15th. Donald trump and the remaining republican candidates will face off tomorrow night in greenville, South Carolina. You can see the debate live, starting at 9 00 tomorrow night, right here on news 6. Tonight, congressman alan grayson is blasting back at one of his partys top leaders. Earlier today Senate Minority leader called on grayson to drop out of the race for u. S. Senate, backing graysons rival for the nomination, patrick murphy. Senator reed says grayson used his office to unethically post a hedge fund. A woman was trying to help a driver whose truck was stuck last night near palm coast and forest grove drive and palm harbor parkway off i95. Loren korn is there. Its been a very emotional day out here for friends and family who came by to pay their respects, leaving flowers and balloons to remember the two people who lost their lives last nigh. I cant imagine how this happened. I really cant. He did everything right. Friends and family in shock after troopers say a dump truck fatally struck 29yearold kevin walsh and 22yearold jessica darby. He was a very good guy, very loving and carrying. I dont understand it. It happened thursday night. Troopers say walsh tried driving his pickup through a Construction Zone and got stuck in the dirt. Investigators say walsh called friends, including darby, to give him a hand but say the a construction worker at the site offered to help by using his dump truck but was also unsuccessful. As he began to leave, he backed the truck over walsh and darby, killing them both. He was a great kid, great worker, great mannered kid. He and his wife brought flowers to the site and said walsh worked at their landscaping business before starting his own. One of our best workers ever. You cant imagine. Loyalty, there every day whenever you needed them. Darbys family didnt want to go on camera but wanted to share this picture of their daughter. The truck driver was taken to the hospital complaining of chest pains. Darbys family was here at the scene last night. Its unclear if the dump truck driver is facing any charges. Valentines day weekend is off to a beautiful start weatherwise. Yeah, friday certainly did not feel like winter when the yeah. But the sun is down now and a cold front is coming toward Central Florida. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells is pinpointing what that will bring. It wasnt be 77 in lisas car tomorrow. It might be 67. You can see the band of cloud cover with a touch of moisture on the way right here. Theres our cold front just approaching the state line. You see the blue area here, turning to light green there, 54 in atlanta and 66 in pensacola. The cold front is about right there, approaching the state line. Other temperatures for the moment, 66 in ocala. 67 at the cape. The onthetown forecast for tonight, 63 by 8 p. M. Down to about 60 as we approach the 11 00 newscast. Ill be right back to pinpoint overnight lows tonight but theyre not too bad. Then well go hour by hour through the day tomorrow to show you what your saturday looks like and how much cooler things will be on valentines day. It is a traffic trouble spot on one of our areas busiest roadways. Shops and restaurants say their valentines day weekend is going to suffer due to closures in the southbound lanes of 1792 between park avenue and monroe avenue. News 6 reporter Amanda Castro found out theyll continue for most of the weekend. Traffic here on u. S. 1792 is slowly moving. Construction underneath that train bridge is causing some major traffic delays. I want to show you this look at the backup. State transportation Officials Say you can expect the roadway to look like this all weekend long. Cars slowly inching along u. S. 1792 taking some drivers 15 minutes just to go a mile. Traffic has been backed up all morning. Its just been a complete mess. The construction is hurting business at the maitland ace hardware. The store manager says he had to cut staff today because there werent enough customers and those who did make it in had to wait through this. Theyre all very, very most of them said they wouldnt have come if they had known it was going to be so hard to get here. All southbound lanes are closed between park and monroe avenues. Construction crews are removing concrete slabs and replacing the road with asphalt. The department of transportation says it was expecting challenges for the project. We knew there was going to be traffic issues. Were trying to get people to get off at maitland boulevard, at lake and kennedy up the road. They had an officer helping with traffic overnight but didnt give enough notice to have someone out there today. Were going to be watching this and see how it sets up during the weekend. It may be something where traffic takes care of itself and we may not necessarily need offduty Law Enforcement out here. The roadway is expected to reopen monday morning at 6 00. Well, history was just made in cuba. In minutes, what pope francis did on behalf of the church for the first time in nearly a thousand years. Also for mardi gras to a celebration of beer and barbecue, we have a packed valentines day weekend of fun. We will highlight some of the events for lovers, partyers and family. But first, deputies are getting results and getting dangerous weapons off the streets. Hear about some of the unusual guns people turned in today. Next. And join us on facebook during the break. Just search for me at lowes presents how to plan for the future. Happy valentines day. Happy birthday. Sorry i forgot our anniversary. Happy mothers day. Now get this 1. 5pint orchid for only 9. 98, at lowes. If youre going to say better ingredients. Better pizza. You better deliver. Which is why im introducing our new papas quality guarantee love your pizza, or get another one, absolutely free. Pget any large pizza up to online only. At papajohns. Com a lot of guns, people dont want guns, they shouldnt have them. Orange county deputies are getting results by getting unwanted and in some cases, stolen guns off the streets. A daylong guns for gift card event is winding down right about now. Deputies tell news 6 that 115 guns have been turned in. Three of those guns were stolen. People also turned in 31 pellet guns. And some of those guns turned in are pretty unique. Its an antique. If it was made before 1898 it would be. This is probably a replica. A black powder revolver and a shotgun were turned in today. Nearly 80 of stolen guns are taken from unlocked cars. Its always interesting to see what gets turned in. There have been cases where rocket launchers and potato guns have been turned in. Its good to know theyre in safe hands now. Stolen guns will be returned to their owners. The rest will be destroyed. We witnessed history unfolding today in cuba. It was more than a side trip. Counterpart in the Russian Orthodox church. His trip started by landing in havana. The pope pull filled a dream started by Pope John Paul ii. He met Russian Orthodox patriarch this afternoon. They signed a joint declaration and exchanged gifts. This is the first meeting between the two and in an official start to more friendly relationships since eastern churches split with rome in the year 1054, 962 years ago. Wow. I think its time to come together. Its been long enough. Especially when you put it in that perspective. Yeah. Seaworld is launching one of its biggest celebrations tomorrow. The parks annual bands, brew and barbecue festival starts saturday and in addition to food and beer, look for a concert by smash mouth on saturday and Gladys Knight on sunday. The concerts are included with the festival runs on weekends through march 6th. It also marks the first full weekend at universals mardi gras celebration. It features authentic food and bands from the big easy, complete with parades and walkers and beads. Diana ross takes the stage tomorrow night. Get out of town. Thats what it says. Mardi gras runs on one day through each weekend into april. Going back to Gladys Knight, i had a chance to introduce her at the South Carolina state fair. Talk about a professional. She was not ready to go on yet. Her limo pulled up, shes not dressed. Her brother, bubba, was in the back seat of the limo putting her earrings on. The show must go on and it did. Ive loved her from that moment on. Back of the limo. Now were going to be anchoring from the green room. If she was a real pro, she would have been on time. It was traffic, it was traffic. No pips . Just her brother, bubba. Bubba the pip. This morning, we dropped to 46 in ocala. 40 in orlando. Daytime highs back into the upper 70s. Look at that 77 in sanford. 76 did it today in the city beautiful. We hit 76 in daytona beach. 73 in ocala. Temperatures right now across Central Florida, look, you see the eye . If youve got a wide screen tv, you can see it. Is that pink for lovers day . Probably. 66 degrees right now in orlando. Melbourne, 65. Were still strong also in ocala at 66 degrees. Wind is kind of wicked, though, week. 17mileanhour wind is pretty stiff. Right now, its 64 in gainesville. 67 at the cape. 66 in kissimmee and 65 in melbourne. Theres that 17mileanhour wind right now in kaufl. 9mileanhour wind tomorrow, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being awesome, tomorrows going to be a 9. A mild overnight tonight, a good day tomorrow. A cold front comes through here during the overnight with no big deal. You can barely pick it out right here. Approaching the state line right now. Thats the cloud cover thats going to roll through here during the overnight. By 1 a. M. , heres the cloud cover. By 7 00 in the morning, its gone, like a fast train rolling through here with no big winds, just a little bit of cloud cover. I really dont think it rains sunday either, by the way. Overnight low tonight in de land is 50. 50 in sanford and oviedo and 48 in ocala and titusville, 52. In orlando, nice night. 52. Heres tomorrow. First thing in the morning tomorrow, 56. By noon, 60. Daytime high 68. Thats a 9 on the sorrells scale, dont you think . Yeah. Come valentines day on sunday, 65 is the daytime high. 74 back to work monday and a chance for rain is at its peak monday night into tuesday. I love how that looks. Thank you, tom. Now valentines day weekend is a busy one for gingers favorite word lovers and others. Candace campos pinpoints events all over the area. All right. Weve made it to our last stop on our pinpoint weather road trip, valentines day edition. Were at lou gardens, a breeze coming off the lake. If youre come out for the valentines day concert on sunday, gates open up at 5 00. Bring a picnic and youll need your layers. Temperatures will be dropping as the concert continues. Lets pinpoint the forecast right here for all the lovebirds night. Temperatures will be in the upper 50s as it starts. Temperatures will be dipping down to 57 degrees by 9 p. M. Other than that, make sure to bundle up for this weekend and have a great valentines. 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