Des Moines is one of nine school districts to get a grant to help high school students earn a national child care credential.

Reimagining Education aims to reshape the district over the next 10 years and is part of a larger move by officials to ...

The proposed changes include dividing the district into three regions, moving sixth-graders to elementary schools, expanding all-day preschool for 4-year-olds and creating signature schools that ...

Chirstian Rivera-Carrion died after being found unresponsive in the federal prison in Leavenworth Sunday night, authorities ...

Fleuriet and Lynn Barnes, UTSA senior vice provost for strategic enrollment, worked with Texas Academic Decathlon Executive ...

There are a few underrated travel destinations in Iowa but this city is great if you are looking for good eats and ...

In support of House Study Bill 52’s mandate for a new UI “School of Intellectual Freedom,” former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad appeared Tuesday as a special guest in a higher education subcommittee ...

Robert J. Jones, chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named president of the University of Washington.

A renewed and expanded effort from chemical giant Bayer to shield itself from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller ...

This is my final column for the Des Moines Business Record, which has carried my musings since 2012. Beginning next month, the Elbert Files will have a new home at a sister publication, dsm magazine, ...

People testify at the Iowa Senate Judiciary Subcommittee meeting on a bill that would shield pesticide companies from ...