Last fall the Hanawalt Elementary School PTA announced the school’s first Read-a-Thon to benefit the school’s library/media center. “Our goal is to raise $7,500 to spruce up our book collection with new and exciting titles for all reading …

Now is the time of the year when teachers get hoarse reminding students to keep up with their reading during summer break. Maybe Capitol View 5th grader Danny Doan can speak for them. He plans to get a daily …

What started with a trickle on Friday will become a deluge by the time it’s all over Sunday night. But this isn’t the weather we’re talking about, it’s the fifth season; the favorite one of every year at DMPS: …

Four Schools Among Top 25 Advanced Placement Schools in State For the seventh year in a row, all five comprehensive high schools at Des Moines Public Schools are listed among the state’s top 50 high schools on the Iowa …