The Des Moines School Employees Association is pleased to once again offer a $500 one-time scholarship to DMPS employees’ children who are graduating from a DMPS high school.  The scholarship may be used at any two-year or four-year institution. Please …

Gay-Straight Alliances, or GSAs, are student-led organizations that work to create safe and supportive environments in schools. Several DMPS secondary schools have GSAs, a way for LGBTQ students and their allies to work on raising awareness and support. …

Homelessness is not an abstract policy issue or something that only happens someplace else. Last year at Des Moines Public Schools, more than a thousand students faced homelessness at some point, enough to fill a high school. This past Valentine’s Day, as …