Why go to the time and trouble to go to the mountains, Jake Troja wondered, when we can get the mountains to come to us? Good question, it turns out. And they are coming for the inaugural Des …

Rabsa Naseer will be a junior in the fall at Roosevelt High School/Central Academy. The summer before she entered 8th grade she was, by her own description, “very shy and quiet.” We’ll take her word for that, hard as …

It’s one thing to lace up your shoes and run in a 5K event. It’s another thing entirely to administratively run one, especially if you’re a teenager otherwise preoccupied with prepping for your senior year of high school. …

Summer school won’t be an option for 3rd graders who are reading below grade level after the 2016-17 school year. It will be a state law. That’s the impetus for a program that’s being piloted in select school districts …

DMPS plans to fill several part-time job openings in childcare, food service and transportation.  Open positions pay $10.00 – 18.00/hr. If you were unable to attend the district’s job fair on July 7, there’s still time to apply. Here’s …