As part of Des Moines Public Schools’ continuing effort to improve school security, a delegation of school officials attended a countywide school safety summit this week. Multiple law enforcement, fire department and school employees from around the metro …
Think you’ve got a bottomless to-do list at home? Imagine how long it might stretch if there were 20+ rooms and hundreds of people coming and going every day. Just about the time you get done scrubbing the …
The Edmunds Elementary staff met for a busy day of training in June to prepare for “Yoga 4 Classrooms,” an innovative program for improving student’s physical, emotional and comprehension skills. Yoga helps increase student performance by improving adaptive and …
Park Avenue Elementary students will have a new playground to play on this summer. The old one was destroyed in an arson fire in March. Kevin Kurth heard about it the day it happened. “I was surprised,” Kurth …
Hannah Marks, who will be a senior at Roosevelt High School, was selected for the Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony in Lake Tahoe, CA. The jazz seminar is on the campus of Sierra Nevada College in Lake Tahoe, CA …
