55 Students Qualify for State in 27 Different Events Student-athletes from all five Des Moines high schools qualified for this week’s 2012 Iowa State High School Track and Field Championship. In fact, 55 DMPS students qualified in 27 different events at the state meet, which runs from Thursday through Saturday at the Drake University stadium. … Read more »

Congratulations are in order for the North High School Academic Decathlon Team after its most successful year in more than a decade of competition. The way things are going at the school they may have to change their name from Polar Bears to Scholar Bears! Led by coaches Archie Cook and Mark Schmidt, North led … Read more »

On a presumably cold day in January of 1912, the year Oreo cookies debuted and the Titanic sank, some 700 students and faculty marched from a downtown campus that was later consumed by the MacVicar Freeway to the site where East High School still stands to start classes at what was then a brand new … Read more »

A small but inquisitive group of a couple dozen people gathered in the Callanan Middle School cafeteria for the third in a series of five “Community Conversations” geared toward the review and possible revision of the “Graduate Ends” - or the expectations for students when they finish high school – the district adopted five years ago. The … Read more »

You could say that Central Academy physics teacher Sara Karbeling pays a great deal of attention to detail. But don’t say she takes the summers off. Last year, after school adjourned, she spent eight weeks at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) outside of Chicago boning up on primary particle detectors during an internship with … Read more »