Watching Ashley Vazquez-Hernandez, 16, dive into the water in the East High School natatorium and gracefully move through the competition lane you would never know what it took her to get here. Vazquez-Hernandez  knows what it is like …

Hoover High School may be the smallest of the five high schools in Des Moines, but their teachers have been earning some big recognitions this year. This summer, Amber Davison was honored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute as …

The musical instrument that served you or a loved one so well has a second chance at life. A Des Moines Public Schools student may be waiting for an opportunity to play it in a marching band or …

Employers – large and small, public and private – have been facing a similar challenge since the start of the pandemic: filling job vacancies. That challenge is just as true for education. At Des Moines Public Schools, recruitment …