Already growing downtown like a six-story sunflower in the middle of a concrete field of commerce was the Walnut Street School. And now, growing inside of it is a small patch of Eden that holds all sorts of …

Congratulations to DMPS Director of Food & Nutrition Management Sandy Huisman, who was named Director of the Year at the School Nutrition Association (SNA) of Iowa’s 59th Annual Conference earlier this month. Huisman’s award is all the more …

Haste does not necessarily always come to waste. Cases in point are the summer camps under the auspices of the DMPS Gifted & Advanced Learners Program (GALP) that culminated on Friday after a busy week of creativity. Elementary …

One morning before school this spring Lanna Smith, then a 3rd grader at Walnut Street School, saw a piece on Good Morning America about the endangered black rhino. Hey, she thought, maybe we can do something to help. When …

Basketballs could be heard thumping out a rhythm in the gym. The office was staffed and humming. Scattered elsewhere in the building were summer school students, learning. But most of the music at North High School on Tuesday …