After more than a century of graduates walking across a stage to be handed their diploma, this year a new approach was necessary. Des Moines Public Schools held personalized commencements for the graduating Class of 2020 in order …

Commencement 2020 at Des Moines Public Schools, the “personal” one like none other, is a wrap. Delayed by the COVID-19 public health crisis, then distracted by nationwide protests in response to the death in police custody of George …

Longtime DMPS teacher and school leader Brandi Otto will be the next principal of Lovejoy Elementary School. Otto started her career almost two decades ago at Des Moines Public Schools as a Special Education associate at Studebaker Elementary …