australia are forced from their homes due to floods. and this morning there s no word when they could be allowed back. one community has even been cut in three by flood waters from a rising river. even sydney is soaked. the city has had its highest rainfall in five years. it s been causing flash floods and chaos on the roads. midwest towns slammed by those killer tornadoes are now scrambling to find space for children to finish out the school year. district administrators in henryville, indiana just announced their 1,200 displaced students will be bused o two temporary schools in nearby towns. high school and middle school towns will be in an industrial building. the younger kids will go to a former private school. we re excited to figure out where they re going to be going. they re going to keep all the elementary in one school. it will be an adjustment. but you know, we re stronger than those tornadoes. so we ll all come together and we ll make it through it. resilience in the
the former channeler of d.c. schools that kicked up controversy when she fired hundreds of teachers as part of the approach to fix the schools. i spoke to her about her appearance in the movie waiting for superman which talks about ways to fix the school. earlier today she announced she s launching an education advocacy group. her website went live a few hours ago and from the tone of the group s mission statement, it sounds like she s taking on more of a political role in her efforts to clean up the country s education system. part of the mission statement on the website reads together we ll demand that legislators, courts, district administrators and school boards create and enforce policies that put students first. we ll make sure politicians and administrators recognize and reward excellent teachers whereby give movies teachers the training they need and quickly improve or remove ineffective educators. she will unveil her new ideas this afternoon on oprah. another controversial