While larger, more urban school districts across the nation have seen a decline in student enrollment in recent years, Des Moines Public Schools continues to buck that trend with a third straight year of triple-digit enrollment increases. Preliminary numbers …
Things are looking up these days at Wright Elementary School, both figuratively and now literally, after the installation of a student-created mural this morning that represents the capstone of “Big Arts Week” at the school. Okay, the drop …
It’s not all problem-solving and brainstorming over at the think tanks known as Central Academy and Central Campus. Every Thursday there’s karaoke in the Central Campus Commons and whatever academic tension may hang in the morning air is …
It’s that time of year, when some of the glow from the bright lights of Broadway shines on to our high schools in Des Moines. First it was North’s production of Urinetown: The Musical followed by Hoover’s presentation …
Student-athletes representing Hoover, North and Roosevelt high schools qualified for the 2013 Iowa State Swimming & Diving Championship. Qualifiers from DMPS are: HOOVER 200 medley relay 200 freestyle relay 400 freestyle relay Seniors Taylor Williams, Kimberley Gonzalez and …
