Articles About Yellow Springs Board of Education

• Community opines on facilities options

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 9, 2023

  

  The second listening session was held on Feb. 21 to gather feedback and suggestions from community members on the future of the school district’s infrastructure as the board works to place a facilities levy on this November’s ballot.

• School board considers additional facilities options

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 20, 2023

  

  At the school board’s regular meeting, held Thursday, Feb. 9, architect Mike Ruetschle presented a preliminary fact sheet briefly detailing eight potential facilities plans for both the school board and community members to consider as the next facilities listening session approaches on Tuesday, Feb. 21.

• Facilities listening sessions begin

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 7, 2023

  

  The purpose of the event was to present to community members potential plans for upgrading the district’s schools that have already been discussed over the last several months by the Facilities Committee — as well as plans that have not yet been discussed — and listen to community feedback on those plans.

• School board broaches levy restrictions

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 24, 2023

  

  With a levy to address shoring up village school facilities expected from the school district this fall, the Yellow Springs Board of Education considered how it will present that levy to the community at its first meeting of the year on Jan. 12.

• YS Schools | Student, faculty awards presented

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 1, 2022

  

  YS Schools announced the November recipients of student and faculty awards at the Nov. 10 Board of Education meeting.

• School board discusses facilities, levies

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 26, 2022

  

  School facilities were at the center of much of the discussion at the most recent meeting of the Board of Education on Thursday, Nov. 10.

• Facilities Committee | Upgrade costs still unclear

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 20, 2022

  

  At the Facilities Committee’s Thursday, Nov. 3, meeting, Timothy Bennett of THP Limited assessed the school facilities and made recommendations on needed repairs, upgrades and maintenance strategies.

• YS Schools district offices to move

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 11, 2022

  

  At the regular meeting of the Board of Education on Thursday, Oct. 13, the board voted to move ahead with a plan to relocate the district offices from their current location across the street from Mills Lawn on Walnut Street to a leased office suite at 888 Dayton St. owned by MVECA.

• Village Council, school board, Township hold joint meeting

  By YS News StaffOctober 30, 2022

  

  The objective of the meeting was for the three entities and the public to come together in order to better understand tax structures, learn about each entity’s financial needs and talk about ideas for future collaboration.

• YS Schools receive state ratings

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 28, 2022

  

  The district’s highest average proficiencies across all tested subjects were social studies, English language arts and science. The lowest-scoring subject in achievement was math, which averaged 54% across grades three through eight and high school algebra and geometry.