When a student arrives to begin the school day, we only get a glimpse of what life is like during the other seventeen hours they are not in the building. The obstacles many students face just to participate …

Hiatt Middle School counselor Nancy Fregoso came to be in the Midwest the same way a lot of DMPS students did – her parents immigrated here. They arrived in Sioux City, SD, from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in 1994. …

Saturday morning, the Community Legislative Action Team (CLAT) held their first event, which ended up being scheduled opposite the World Cup and in 10-degree weather. Still, legislators and supporters came to Jesse Franklin Taylor Learning Center to have …

Each school year we are successful in creating an environment where the vast majority of students remain healthy throughout flu season. This success comes from a janitorial staff focused and detailed in its work, teachers who make extra …

When Don Graves first came to work at Des Moines Public Schools in 1959, as a PE teacher at Stowe Elementary School, personnel records were kept on index cards. Each year a new line was added to note …