They take a great photo together but Joy Rector and Evie Sly are anything but posers. Their friendship is real and longstanding. Through parental mutual acquaintances, the juniors at Roosevelt High School met on the cusp of entering …

Last spring we reported on the district’s first annual Unified Sports Day, an event that is turning out to have been just the beginning of a beautiful relationship between Des Moines Public Schools and Special Olympics. Since then, …

Central Campus offers students the opportunity to prepare for their future in a number of different fields of study, from high-skilled trades to high-level science. One new example is the Neuroscience Student Mentoring And Research Training (NeuroSMART), a …