Jason Negro coaches high school football at the smallest school in a California conference that ESPN has rated the strongest in the nation. To give you an idea, one of the member schools has produced three Heisman Trophy …

Roosevelt High School 9th graders have been reading A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Thursday afternoon that bestseller came to life when Mohamed Sidibay traveled all the way from Sierra Leone, West Africa …

It was business as usual at the Iowa Statehouse Wednesday afternoon. Until… At 2:30 a rally in support of increased state funding for public schools convened on the main floor, right outside the governor’s offices. It was organized …

“What’s for lunch?” It has to be one of the most oft-considered questions in students’ homes. Every school day, the DMPS Central Nutrition Center provides breakfast and lunch for thousands of students.  Much of the food is chosen, …

Not everyone is following the sun for spring break. Some DMPS parents are following the money. More specifically, they’re following, closely, the legislative process as crunch time nears for the passage of state funding for Iowa’s public schools. …