Congratulations to yet another award-winning DMPS teacher, McCombs Middle School’s Jake Wager! When last we saw Wager at work he was coordinating the mock caucus at McCombs in January when students held their own version of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation …
Congratulations to Hoyt Middle School cafeteria worker Randy Bakker on his selection as the Goodwill Achiever of the Year! Randy was born with a condition called hydrocephalus which puts pressure on his optic nerve and renders him functionally …
This article is one in a series of reports on how support from the Wallace Foundation is making a difference at Des Moines Public Schools. In June 2014, DMPS was awarded a substantial grant by the Wallace Foundation to improve …
The Scarlets, Huskies, Rails, Polar Bear and Roughriders are on the run this week as the 2016 Iowa Girls & Boys State Track & Field Meet gets underway at Drake Stadium. The state championship is Thursday through Saturday. …
Besides the usual tribe of schoolchildren, Windsor Elementary’s playground became a campground for the Plains Indians on Monday when a tipi (or teepee) big enough to hold three classes at a time was erected in the grassy field …
