The COVID-19 Pandemic may be keeping our preschool staff and teachers at home right now, but they’re thinking ahead to the 2020-2021 academic year. Des Moines Public Schools’ Early Childhood Programs provide quality learning experiences to help promote …

Springtime is normally an exciting time for schools. The weather warms for outdoor sports. Tuxes and gowns are arranged for proms. Concerts and plays and musicals take to the stage. And, most of all, a new class of …

The photo above is of a group of students at Oak Park school, taken in 1918. A handwritten note reads “Kindergarten knitters during the war.” While Americans of all ages rallied around the American doughboys fighting in the …

It looked like dismissal time in the half-circle driveway at Merrill Middle School. A dozen cars were lined up in a queue that was beginning to spill onto Grand Avenue. But it was lunchtime, and the cars weren’t …