Recognition for Roosevelt High School that we hinted at last spring has officially been conferred. “I woke up to some exciting news this morning,” principal Kevin Biggs emailed last weekend. “Our team has worked hard for our students, …
As the Fall 2020 high school sports season resumes, Des Moines Public Schools wants to make sure it happens in a way that is safe for students, coaches and spectators in the time of COVID-19. DMPS is implementing …
DMPS Health Services Supervisor Diane Gladson had plenty on the agenda for last Friday’s virtual meeting of 67 school nurses. Their role, too, shapes up very differently this year. But besides going over new protocols for quarantining, mask …
Understandably, uncertainty surrounding how and when to begin the 2020-21 school year is foremost in most people’s minds right now. But before all attention turns to those concerns, a proper share was paid on Saturday to the last …
Orientation in the midst of extreme disorientation is like the eye of a storm; a derecho, perhaps, or a still spreading pandemic. It lends order at the center of chaos. Orientation began Friday morning for the DMPS cohort …
