One-hundred-and-fifty-three people are retiring or have retired over the past year from Des Moines Public Schools. They were honored at a luncheon today at the Hotel Fort Des Moines. Jerry Van Dyck spent 36 years teaching in the …
While schools across the country are counting down the dwindling days until summer vacation a countdown of a different sort reached zero Wednesday morning at Callanan Middle School. Cougar II let’s call it, a weather balloon bound for …
George Washington Carver Community School is joining part of a national effort to promote reading and share books: Little Free Libraries. Betty Wolfe, an instructional coach at Carver, presented the idea to Principal Cecil Brewton, who shared the …
It goes without saying that nobody wants their house to burn down, or to be arrested and hauled into court to appear before a judge. Better to be on the other side, the right side, of those scenarios …
Friday was Service Day at Hiatt Middle School and the old saying that you can’t make mayonnaise without breaking some eggs came to mind as visitors approached the building early that morning. A clot of 8th gardeners, er, graders …
