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 …

More than two dozen parents, educators, community members and even a Girl Scout troop gave two hours of their Saturday to learn how to access their legislators and advocate for Des Moines Public Schools students. The Community Legislative …

The true outcome of Saturday’s first annual Urban Dreams Classic at North High School won’t be determined until May when a couple of scholarship awardees are announced. In the meantime, we can report that DeLaSalle High School from …

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 90th birthday was observed in different ways throughout the nation. Here in Des Moines, while students had a day off from class, many observed the holiday by doing special service projects. For example, students …