The school board made the difficult but right decision given the circumstances.” The red flags were obvious from the start. Advertisement🚨 NEW: Just one hour after Des Moines Superintendent Ian Roberts resigned ahead of his termination deadline to prove he was in the country legally, students staged a walkout at Des Moines schools in Iowa. According to other records Powell discovered, Roberts was married before and divorced her in 2006. Some of these court cases from Maryland are not Ian Andre Roberts, the Des Moines superintendent, but most of them appear to be. The same goes for the Des Moines School Board and district people involved in Roberts' hiring.