Tomorrow is Election Day for School Boards in Iowa Over the summer the official minutes of more than a century’s worth of school board meetings were consolidated in one central location. With another school board election upon us, …

This morning marked the first Pride Assembly of the 2013-14 school year at Studebaker Elementary. The theme was respect, so no wonder Aretha Franklin was part of the soundtrack mix in the jammed gymnasium. But the audience was …

Implicit in the dream that was shared half a century ago today was the new class that met this morning at Central Campus. It’s called Urban Leadership 101 and that’s an accurate enough course title given that the …

In today’s Des Moines Register, Superintendent Tom Ahart and Board chair Dick Murphy respond to a recent editorial in the newspaper that failed to tell the full story about the school district’s alternative contract for new teachers. Click …

No, Phillips kindergartners, it isn’t like this every day. Ask the old-timers in 5th grade and they’ll tell you that today was the first time everybody assembled on the playground and a voice boomed “Say cheese and pickles!” …