Jefferson
Jefferson, IA · Municipal
The Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register
New boundaries could send Des Moines students to farther schools
Des Moines Public Schools is moving toward a November vote on new attendance boundaries that will reshape how students advance through the district. The boundaries are part of the district's $265 million Reimagining Education plan. Once set, the new plan will replace DMPS' current feeder patterns with Northeast, Northwest and South regions , divided by the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers. They will establish new student pathways from elementary and middle schools to East, Lincoln and Roosevelt high schools, convert some buildings to signature schools and allow more elementary schools to add sixth grade. The proposal redraws current attendance boundaries , which determine which schools students attend based on their home addresses. The new boundaries would organize schools into three regions, with students ultimately assigned to East High School in the Northeast, Lincoln High School in the South or Roosevelt High School in the Northwest. North and Hoover would no longer operate as traditional neighborhood high schools. Instead, they would become two of the district's nine opt-in signature schools, which will offer specialized programs in STEM, the arts, Montessori or dual language that families could apply to attend. North will focus on STEM programs, while Hoover wil will offer hands-on
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‘I’m just a chicken guy,’ 11-year-old selling shirts to update Iowa county fair’s chicken cages
At the Iowa State Fair, we met a young contestant who was showing his chickens for a judging competition. Just a few months later, he's turning his attention to his own county fairgrounds.
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Andy Beshear, Tom Vilsack join Rob Sand at Des Moines rally
DES MOINES, Iowa — Just hours after President Donald Trump's visit to Iowa, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and former Iowa Gov. and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack joined Rob Sand on stage for a rally in Des Moines. “I've seen the polls, you've seen the polls, they look...
Des Moines Business Record
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Filings confirm local number of previously announced UnityPoint layoffs
State filings show the final number of local UnityPoint Health layoffs connected to a previously announced transition of IT and revenue cycle services to a third-party vendor. One employee in Dubuque will be laid off in February, alongside 229 in West Des Moines, according to a notice filed with the state of Iowa.
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Hot Spring Spas of Iowa and the Twin Cities
Sean Schaben was working the Iowa State Fair when a couple he hadn’t seen in roughly 20 years came looking for him. Schaben sold them a hot tub decades earlier. Now they were celebrating their 30th anniversary and wanted another one — and they wanted to buy it from him.