Some DMPS preschoolers met a TV celebrity on Friday. Martha the dog, from the show “Martha Speaks” and her friends from IPTV paid a visit to the Jesse Franklin Taylor Education Center.

Des Moines Public Schools has 19 Head Start classrooms; the parents in each of these classrooms elect representatives to serve on Policy Committee. We had our first Policy Committee meeting of the school year on September 16th; over …

Jumpstart’s Read for the Record mobilizes millions of children and adults to celebrate literacy with an effort to break the world record for the most people reading the same book on the same day. On October 21, 2014, …