While most larger, more urban school districts across the nation are seeing a decline in student enrollment, Des Moines Public Schools is going against that trend with a second straight year of an enrollment increase of more than 500 …
Monday was Election Day at Merrill Middle School and turnout was extremely high. Merrill Humanities teacher Dave O’Connor is coordinating the school’s participation in a mock election program sponsored by the Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI), a national civic …
A $1.6 million renovation at Brody Middle School means less of one thing: mobile classrooms. The recently completed construction at the south-side school includes a four-classroom addition at the building’s west end, putting an end to the need …
Des Moines Public Schools will be well represented at the 2012 Iowa State Swimming & Diving championship meet as student-athletes from Hoover, Lincoln, North and Roosevelt qualified to pursue state titles. Among competitors from DMPS are Katherine Ross …
Ah, autumn! The glorious, sweater-weather time of year when spectacular rashes of foliage break out and musicals burst from the grand, historic auditorium at Roosevelt High School. You can always count on first-rate, splashy productions at Roosevelt during …
