Last spring we reported on the district’s first annual Unified Sports Day, an event that is turning out to have been just the beginning of a beautiful relationship between Des Moines Public Schools and Special Olympics. Since then, …

Central Campus offers students the opportunity to prepare for their future in a number of different fields of study, from high-skilled trades to high-level science. One new example is the Neuroscience Student Mentoring And Research Training (NeuroSMART), a …

A lot of students know their bus drivers and associates are pretty special, but what they maybe didn’t know was that many are secretly holiday elves, and the bus, an incognito sleigh. When transportation director LaShone Mosley floated …

A couple of years ago, Alison Hoeman put out some feelers for donations to support two refugee families she anticipated coming to Phillips Elementary School, where she’s an ELL teacher. She’d mounted similar efforts during stints as a …