When Amy Orellana and Alyssia Anderson were in 8th grade at Weeks Middle School they applied for a college readiness program at Lincoln High School called AVID. They had to be interviewed, something they were unfamiliar with and apprehensive …

The wave of mock, repeat, mock homicides at Central Campus continued this morning when three victims were found in the district’s new aviation facility on County Line Road. No sooner had charges been filed in connection with last …

Jean Schwendau’s AP Biology class at North High School files in at 9:00 AM on a Friday morning. She is a veteran teacher in her 30th year, the last 13 of them at North. She grew up in Louisville, …

The Alternative Teaching Contract (ATC) offered by Des Moines Public Schools is attracting national attention and rightly so. Most recently it was highlighted by The Atlantic and its sister publication, the National Journal, in a report of innovative …

There aren’t many school activities that begin at 5:30 a.m. and even fewer that require a student to be in uniform, ready to think and move on command. But that’s the life of a Central Campus JROTC Red Bull …