08-03-2025
Des Moines Public Schools pausing Central Campus Agriscience program
DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines Public Schools announced in a press release in February that it will be pausing its Central Campus Agriscience program for a year.
'While enrollment in the Agriscience program has declined, Central Campus is taking a forward-thinking approach by temporarily pausing the program for one year. During this time, school leaders will convene a steering committee – including students, parents, community members, and agriscience partners – to redesign the curriculum. The reimagined program will prepare students to tackle global agricultural challenges and develop innovative solutions.'
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Current and formers students of the agriscience program showed up to a school board meeting this past Tuesday to voice their concerns about the program pause.
Trinity Barth, a former Central Campus Agriscience program student, was at the meeting and said that a pause on the program would have lots of downsides.
'It's also going to put a pause on our annual plant sale, which is where we get most of our funding for, say, local, state and national trips, and also purchasing animals. And pretty much everything else that we do in the Agriscience program is paid for by that sale,' Barth said.
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