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• Yellow Springs High School students to try alternative tests

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 23, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs High School students are scheduled to try out the first of a bevy of alternative standardized tests that the school district is considering for next year.

• Children get a choice at Montessori school

  By Megan BachmanOctober 16, 2014

  

  It’s a school without teachers, a place where the children teach themselves. What sounds radical is a concept developed by Dr. Maria Montessori more than 100 years ago and now in use in more than 7,000 schools around the world.

• Mills Lawn students walk and roll to school

  By Matt MindeOctober 9, 2014

  

  For Walk to School Day last Wednesday, Mills Lawn Students were encouraged to get themselves to school under their own power.

• Families weigh pros, cons of school testing

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 3, 2014

  

  Since national and state education leaders began revising standardized testing requirements that will more than double the hours and days students will spend testing from last year to this year, parents have been asking questions.

• Parents consider effects of increased standardized testing

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 25, 2014

  

  At a school forum this week, school administrators encouraged parents to contact their legislators regarding their concerns about increased state and federal standardized tests.

• Students can bowl this winter

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Bowling is back. At its meeting Sept. 11, the Yellow Springs School Board approved a proposal to make bowling the newest official sport at Yellow Springs High School.

• Children’s Center leadership changes and reversals afoot

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 4, 2014

  

  The Community Children’s Center parent community got busy last week after nearly losing the center’s executive director and at a meeting Wednesday managed to overtake the board of trustees.

• Mills Lawn on the move to innovate

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 28, 2014

  

  When Mills Lawn School opens its doors this Friday, it will serve more students than last year, a growth trend that Principal Matt Housh sees as steady.

• Village schools open doors on Friday

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 21, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs schools open their doors for students tomorrow, Aug. 22.

• Yellow Springs School Board affirms nonrenewal of contract

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 31, 2014

  

  Three members of the Yellow Springs School Board met last Monday, July 14, at a special board meeting and voted to affirm their previous decision to nonrenew the contract of McKinney Middle School physical education and health teacher Angela Bussey.