Samantha Hernandez
State Education Reporter at Des Moines Register
@dmregister state education reporter, rural school researcher, Iowa’s Book Ban Battle, TBI survivor. Past @spencer_fdn fellow, @dcadvocatenews, @gbpressgazette
Articles
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1 week ago |
desmoinesregister.com | Samantha Hernandez
Students at seven Des Moines Public Schools will welcome new principals at the start of the 2025-26 school year. The hirings are in line with the district's strategic plan and its ongoing Reimagining Education initiative, according to a district news release. Over the next decade, Des Moines Public Schools expects to spend an estimated $683 million on its Reimagining Education, Reinvigorating Schools plan that will close some schools and revamp others in response to declining enrollment.
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2 weeks ago |
desmoinesregister.com | Samantha Hernandez
Career day for Callanan Middle School seventh grade students included the usual lineup: a nurse, a real estate agent, an entrepreneur, a former baseball player — two Grammy award-winning artists, Bangladesh and Slipknot's Sid Wilson. You know, just your standard career day speakers.
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2 weeks ago |
desmoinesregister.com | Samantha Hernandez |Michaela Ramm
More than 100 hundred Iowa students are being educated outside the state. When Iowa schools sometimes have to look outside the state when they cannot meet students mental health care needs and no local resources are available. Roughly 400 miles from her family's generational farm in Clarion, Nicole Woodley feels she can finally breathe.
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3 weeks ago |
desmoinesregister.com | Samantha Hernandez
Veteran third grade teacher and 2024-25 Milken Educator Award recipient Holly Hunter has been honored by Gov. Kim Reynolds with the presentation of the award at the state Capitol. Hunter's May 13 meeting with Reynolds and Iowa Department of Education Director McKenzie Snow was another highlight to a whirlwind year that started on Jan. 16 with a surprise announcement at Davis Elementary School that she was a Milken recipient.
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3 weeks ago |
desmoinesregister.com | Samantha Hernandez
Adel DeSoto Minburn High School senior Nic Carmichael appreciates that his last four years of school have outwardly been no different than those of his classmates. The journey to building a high school life filled with friends, music and video games was not always easy. In middle school, Carmichael, of Yale, feared he would have to use a wheelchair long-term due to his osteogenesis imperfecta causing more than 150 compression fractures in his back. Him carrying a backpack is what led to the injury.
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