Articles About Yellow Springs School District

• John Gudgel creates community through listening, learning

  By Jessica ThomasJuly 12, 2023

  

  A stalwart face in the Yellow Springs district, Gudgel has served as a teacher, coach, principal and guidance counselor in his nearly 40-year career with the district beginning in 1979.

• Yellow Springs schools report rise in enrollment

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 8, 2022

  

  The number of students attending Yellow Springs Schools is up from last year, according to the district’s annual enrollment report, compiled in late fall.

• Mills Lawn School principal finalists named

  By Carol SimmonsMay 4, 2021

  

  The school district announced earlier this week that a 12-member interview committee had selected Cheryl Lowe, a fifth-grade teacher at the school, and Megan Winston, an assistant principal at Xenia High School, as the top candidates.

• Teachers urge online option

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 22, 2020

  

  As Yellow Springs school district leaders consider what educational approach to take when the 2020–21 academic year begins Aug. 27, the local teachers union says the risks of returning to the classroom amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic are too great, and is calling for “100% virtual” learning when school resumes.

• YS Schools to resume in-person classes with new academic year

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 4, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs Schools will begin the 2020–21 school year with a resumption of “regular, in-person classes,” Superintendent Terri Holden has announced. Families with “vulnerable” students, however, will be offered an online learning option.

• 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.

• Basora reflects on his tenure

  By Carol Simmons

  

  For his final day in the office as Yellow Springs Schools superintendent, Mario Basora had hoped to walk over from his home on Allen Street.

• School Board—Superintendent search begins

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 28, 2019

  

  At its regular meeting Thursday, March 14, the board welcomed two representatives of a Columbus-based firm that will assist throughout the process of getting a new superintendent hired before the end of the school year.

• New YSHS McKinney Middle School principal to be approved

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 21, 2019

  

  In a special meeting Thursday, March 21, the Yellow Springs school board was expected to approve Jack Hatert as the new principal at Yellow Springs High School/McKinney Middle School for the 2019–20 school year.

• School Board—Principal selection begins

  By Gary McBrideFebruary 28, 2019

  

  The hiring process for a permanent principal for Yellow Springs High School and McKinney Middle School was a main topic at the Yellow Springs Board of Education’s Feb. 14 meeting.