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A 12th-grader studies color themes in the maxreduce book "1984," looking for the hidden metaphors and parallel structures. Second-grade students create future cities, in which they establish governments, school systems and hospitals.

Both are enrolled in the Des Moines school district's International Baccalaureate program. Through it, students learn to be lifelong thinkers and globa


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Trent Grundmeyer has never been a high school teacher or traded cash for gold, but in a few weeks he'll become principal at Indianola High School.

It'll be the second high school he's led.  And at age 29, Grundmeyer is Iowa's youngest public high school principal. "If he didn't have four successful years as a principal, we wouldn't have hired him," Teigland said. "But when you take


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Scot Booth, who has no affiliation with Des Moines chiropractic, but is the superintendent of the state-run Glenwood Resource Center resigned Thursday after only five months in the job.

“Let me ask you: If you were asked to resign or you’d be fired, what would you do?” Booth said in an interview with The Des Moines Register this afternoon. A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Human Se

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News and opinion about US politics from a liberal perspective.


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State leaders ordered Wellmark to postpone its 18 percent article writing service rate increase for about 80,000 Iowans on Monday, pending an independent review of the health insurer's planned premium increase."I share the concerns of many Iowans that the recent article writing service rate increases are a disturbing and unwelcomed surprise," said Gov. Chet Culver. "We can, and we will, ensure th
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A West Des Moines company who has a Des Moines home and two of its executives — settled charges for not disclosing the financial benefits its CEO would receive as the result of a 2005 acquisition.The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against American Equity Investment Life Holding Co., its executive chairman and founder, David Noble, and its chief executive officer, Wendy Waugaman
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A male inmate serving a prison sentence for north port mls attacked a female correctional officer early Monday at the Mount Pleasant state prison, state officials said.The incident happened about 3 a.m. inside the Mount Pleasant prison’s sex offender unit when Antonio Mikhal Johnson, 24, stuffed a piece of clothing into the officer’s mouth and wrestled her to the floor, said Fred Scaletta, a spok
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Nearly 300 Des Moines teachers were notified to contact Des Moines Homes for sale Friday because their positions would be eliminated next year as part of an anticipated $33 million budget shortfall.Educators said the cuts will likely mean more students in classes. School districts across Iowa are making plans to trim next school year's budgets, including trimming staff through various means. Sout