While students enjoy their first full week of summer, more than 600 DMPS teachers, principals and staff were using the Convention Center Ballroom as a training ground. Less than a week after saying goodbye to their students, they’re …
Those first hours after work on Fridays always buzz. Maybe more so in early June as summertime yawns and stretches itself awake. What better time for the good stuff factory that calls itself RunDSM to schedule its first …
The Roosevelt Roughriders brought not one but two State championship trophies home from the 2015 Girls’ State Tennis Championship, capping off a season that may be the best in school history. On Friday, Mary Hill and Eren Sagun …
The competition keeps getting stiffer but DMPS keeps collecting “Teenage Tonys” at the Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards Showcase, now in its third year under the auspices of Des Moines Performing Arts. Last night at the Des …
About a year ago veteran School Board member Connie Boesen approached Scavo teacher Sarai Tillinghast and shared her vision for a seeding program aimed at growing more minority teachers for a “majority minority” school district. DMPS educates more …
