Articles About Mills Lawn Elementary School

• Longtime Mills Lawn teachers retire

  By Carol SimmonsJune 23, 2021

  

  This is the second of two articles featuring teachers who have retired from the local school district this academic year.

• School board OK’s new K–12 plan

  By Carol SimmonsMay 30, 2021

  

  The projected cost is about $35.5 million, though the district expects an eventual state reimbursement of 26%, more than $9.2 million.

• New MLS principal named

  By Carol SimmonsMay 12, 2021

  

  Megan Winston, a vice principal at Xenia High School, is expected to be approved at this week’s regular Yellow Springs school board meeting as the next principal at Mills Lawn Elementary School.

• 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.

• Person to take ‘different path’

  By Carol SimmonsApril 23, 2021

  

  Michelle Person, who is finishing her first year as principal at Mills Lawn Elementary School, formally announced her resignation, effective June 30, during the most recent school board meeting Thursday, April 8.

• 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.

• 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 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.