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• School board approves facilities committee

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 7, 2022

  

  The board’s new plan involves forming a committee that will explore the costs and ramifications of a phased, permanent-improvement plan to repair and upgrade the district’s buildings, compared with the costs and considerations associated with new or partial construction.

• New school board makeup expected to bring changes

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 24, 2022

  

  After more than a decade, when changes in school board makeup occurred mostly one new member at a time, amid the constancy of veteran office holders serving multiple terms and carrying over familiar approaches, newcomers are in the super-majority as 2022 begins.

• New school board members take seats

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 23, 2022

  

  The Yellow Springs school board’s annual organizational meeting, conducted in the Mills Lawn gym on Thursday, Jan. 13, began with the swearing in of its three newest members: Dorothée Bouquet, Judith Hempfling and Amy Magnus.

• YS school board— Deficit delayed by one year

  By Carol SimmonsJune 5, 2021

  

  Revenue over the past 10 months is about $500,000 ahead of budgeted projections, while expenses are about $500,000 under budget.

• Teacher vaccinations tied to reopening by March 1

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 24, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs students, whose instruction has been 100% online since the start of the 2020–21 school year, will return to the classroom — at least part time — no later than March 1.

• Special Yellow Springs Board of Education meeting

  By YS News StaffDecember 23, 2020

  

  A special Board of Education will be live-streamed Monday, Dec. 18, at 12:30 p.m. on the schools’ YouTube channel.

• Land annexation moves ahead

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 30, 2020

  

  Council began the process of annexing 34 acres of land on the south end of the Village at its virtual meeting on Monday, Sept. 21.

• YS Schools restart— District assesses risks

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 13, 2020

  

  This story looks at some of the risks of both in-person and online instruction that local educators are weighing in planning for the new academic year.

• Yellow Springs Schools to start academic year online

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 25, 2020

  

  In a specially called online meeting Saturday morning, July 25, the Yellow Springs school board unanimously approved a plan to restart the 2020–21 academic year with all students receiving online instruction presented by district teachers.

• Yellow Springs Schools — Holden takes the helm

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 1, 2019

  

  Her official contract doesn’t begin until Aug. 1, but Terri Holden, the new superintendent of Yellow Springs Schools, is already on the job full time.