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"We're able to put kids in a position where they are studying aspects of their future career," said interim Superintendent Matt Smith.

State investigators allege a former Des Moines Public Schools' horticulture teacher improperly spent nearly $20,000, including paying his wife more than $18,000. Craig Nelson, who was responsible for the schools’ Central Campus greenhouse, an annual plant sale and a student trip, had worked for the district from August 2017 until he was terminated by the Des Moines School Board April 6 of this year. In May 2020, the school district’s human resources department contacted its in-house internal auditor with "concerns of misappropriation of funds within the greenhouse and allowing a plant sa...