Thirty-five Iowa schools are in need of assistance, and 12 of them are in the Public Schools district, a new report shows.

The School Board will hear from district parents Tuesday night who want officials to implement a "bell-to-bell" cellphone ban ...

Cell phones could be on the way out in Des Moines Public Schools. Hoover High School was the first school in the district with a ban, requiring students to store phones in their backpacks during class ...

SOUNDS LIKE A FOREIGN CONCEPT, BUT A DES MOINES HIGH SCHOOL IS PILOTING THE IDEA AND THE RESULTS. THEY ARE IMPRESSIVE. YEAH.

The two schools couldn’t be much different, but they saw the same things. “You’d maybe have one out of every three kids ...

All five of Des Moines Public Schools' traditional high schools will receive additional support from the federal government ...

Racism was not addressed in Jean-Marie Salem's family growing up. It wasn't until she found her birth family that she felt ...

A new report from the Iowa Department of Education grades each school's performance in subjects like math and science, while taking chronic absenteeism into account.

Here are the Des Moines Register's male Athlete of the Week candidates from the Des Moines metro area for the week of Nov. 3-9. DesMoinesRegister.com readers vote to determine the winners, who will be ...

Schools Valley High School Large comprehensive high school known for academic excellence Offers a wide range of AP courses ...