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• Forums invite facilities input

  By Carol SimmonsApril 20, 2021

  

  The Yellow Springs school facilities master planning process is continuing to move forward, and district Superintendent Terri Holden expects to take a proposal to the school board in a specially called meeting later this month.

• Yellow Springs schools— BOE approves 100% in-person instruction

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 19, 2021

  

  More than a year after all K–12 schools in Ohio temporarily closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and months after most neighboring districts returned to in-person instruction, Yellow Springs public school students will go back into the classroom full time beginning Monday, April 5.

• Cover story

  By YS News StaffMarch 17, 2021

  

  “Looking Back, Looking Here, Looking Forward,” an art installation created by McKinney Middle School students, will be the headlining exhibition at The Orphanage gallery in Dayton through Sunday, March 21.

• Yellow Springs schools— April 5 eyed for larger in-person return to classes

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 13, 2021

  

  During a special work session of the Yellow Springs school board, conducted online Saturday morning, March 6, the district superintendent said she is working on a plan to increase students’ in-person classroom time to near pre-pandemic levels.

• School facilities— Forum takes public pulse

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 4, 2021

  

  Questions about costs, the future of the Mills Lawn school property and recommendations by the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission dominated public comments last week during the first of three planned community forums to discuss the future of Yellow Springs’ public school buildings.

• YS Speech & Debate— Students find their voice

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 14, 2021

  

  Whether sharing their own thoughts, presenting the words of another or arguing both sides of an issue, members of the Yellow Springs Speech & Debate team say they are finding power in their personal voices.

• 2020 Year in Review: Village Schools

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 7, 2021

  

  Calendar year 2020 began and ended with Yellow Springs school district leaders discussing identified structural needs in the local school buildings and how to address them, but the majority of the year was occupied by the district’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• YS Schools— Board OKs hybrid transition plan

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 28, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs school district leaders are making plans for students to return to in-person classes, but exactly when that will be is uncertain.

• Yellow Springs School board— Facilities back at forefront

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 2, 2020

  

  Administrators’ recent focus on pandemic-related school closures, and the accompanying transition to online instruction, drastically slowed the facilities conversation, but didn’t sideline it completely.

• New science teacher hired

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 4, 2020

  

  McKinney Middle School’s new science teacher, Cameron Dickens, has brought an atypical educational background to an atypical school year when classes since began online Thursday, Aug. 27.