Two months ago, Paradise was lost. Today, she finds herself in a wonderful PLACE. Paradise Ivie is a 24-year-old former DMPS student who is on the brink of becoming the first graduate from the district’s Personalized Learning and …
The stadium project jointly proposed by DMPS and Drake University could be an overdue, cost-efficient, win-win, innovative and fully funded idea that promises to pay dividends for generations of students at both institutions. But in terms of the school …
Last summer the Des Moines School Board formally adopted a set of SMART goals and metrics for monitoring progress toward them. The first one is: Student Expectation Goal 1: The percent of all third grade students on track in reading …
A new partnership between Des Moines Public Schools and Des Moines Parks and Recreation seeks to expand youth services in the community and have all students involved in an extracurricular activity by the time they complete fifth grade. …
