Students in the Central Campus Broadcasting and Film Program were recognized by the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence for their recent contributions to “Dating Violence Awareness Month.”    Participants were given the opportunity to create public service announcements that acknowledged everyone’s right to be in a safe relationship.  After exploring the attributes of a healthy relationship, … Read more »

Tonight, a partnership called “McTech Angels” – a collaboration between Corinthian Baptist Church, a Des Moines-area McDonald’s franchisor and other businesses – is donating 50 new computers for use by students at Moulton Extended Learning Center. The following is their press release on tonight’s event and their reasons for supporting students at Moulton. Corinthian Baptist … Read more »

Among all of the interscholastic sports, wrestling may make the best metaphor for life. After all, we all wrestle with someone or something at one time or another. But few of us make it through every encounter undefeated. That’s what makes Roosevelt senior John Meeks’ high school career so remarkable. If you ran a highlight reel showing one of … Read more »

Des Moines Public Schools provides students with a wide variety of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educational opportunities at all grade levels, and the results were on display at the annual Middle School Science Fair. More than 175 students from nine DMPS middle schools participated in the event, held last night at the Science … Read more »

  If the rest of the country was as efficient as DMPS our energy and environmental worries would soon be as outmoded as catchall trash cans. Not only has the district become a national Energy Star/Energy Leader by geothermally heating and cooling schools (and thereby saving lots of money – and jobs!), it’s also beginning … Read more »