How Des Moines schools will use a $75,000 state grant to combat child care deserts
Des Moines is one of nine school districts to get a grant to help high school students earn a national child care credential.
Des Moines Public Schools launches huge plan to reshape district. Some schools will close.
Reimagining Education aims to reshape the district over the next 10 years and is part of a larger move by officials to ...
Des Moines Public Schools to undergo overhaul, expanding preschool but closing some schools
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 ...
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Philadelphians Catherine and Anthony Clifton Give UPenn $120 Million
Plus, World Resources Institute and University of Chicago will share in a $100 million gift for global energy-transition ...
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Transitions: Gonzaga U. and U. of Washington Name New Presidents
Robert J. Jones, chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named president of the University of Washington.
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The Elbert Files: Riverfront Plans?
This is my final column for the Des Moines Business Record, which has carried my musings since 2012. Beginning next month, ...
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Iowa lawmakers again look at law to shield pesticide companies from warning label lawsuits
Roundup is primarily produced in Muscatine, and Bayer has multiple crop science plants across Iowa ... Richard Deming, the ...
Florida bill part of renewed effort to shield weedkiller maker from cancer lawsuits
Legislators who favor the liability protection for Bayer say lawsuits alleging the herbicide Roundup causes cancer would hurt ...
Don’t worry, KC lovers: Local florists ‘well prepared’ for V-Day deliveries as snow looms
Florists in Kansas City are used to the mountain of orders February brings, and say they are ready to make deliveries despite ...