Iowa’s Largest Provider of Public Education is 105 Years Old The following article, written for the school district’s centennial in 2007, is a brief history of the formation of Des Moines Public Schools: It was late in the year …

55 Students Qualify for State in 27 Different Events Student-athletes from all five Des Moines high schools qualified for this week’s 2012 Iowa State High School Track and Field Championship. In fact, 55 DMPS students qualified in 27 …

Congratulations are in order for the North High School Academic Decathlon Team after its most successful year in more than a decade of competition. The way things are going at the school they may have to change their …

On a presumably cold day in January of 1912, the year Oreo cookies debuted and the Titanic sank, some 700 students and faculty marched from a downtown campus that was later consumed by the MacVicar Freeway to the …

A small but inquisitive group of a couple dozen people gathered in the Callanan Middle School cafeteria for the third in a series of five “Community Conversations” geared toward the review and possible revision of the “Graduate Ends” – or …