DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines Public School District made it a mission over the summer to recruit and hire staff to fill its vacant positions — and the hard work paid off.
The district wasn’t only trying to hire for classroom teacher positions, but for staff positions, including custodians, food and nutrition workers, and bus drivers.
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Rainey Briggs, DMPS Chief Operations Officer, said that DMPS has 72 buildings that span the entire district. He said that roughly 210 custodians are needed for the district to be fully-staffed in that area. Currently, they only have 13 of those positions still open. As for food and nutrition, only nine positions are open, and the district is searching for three head cooks.
Briggs said that all of the summer efforts paid off…