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Articles About Yellow Springs Board of Education

  • YELLOW SPRINGS BOARD OF EDUCATION EXECUTIVE SESSION

    By YS News StaffSeptember 3, 2021

    YELLOW SPRINGS BOARD OF EDUCATION EXECUTIVE SESSION for Tuesday, Sept. 7

  • Yellow Springs schools to require masks

    By Carol SimmonsAugust 18, 2021

    The beginning of the new school year this month will look a lot like the end of last year for Yellow Springs district students, at least in terms of COVID-19 precautions.

  • YS school board — Facilities levy set for ballot

    By Carol SimmonsJuly 23, 2021

    After months of incremental steps leading toward the goal of putting a nearly $35.6 million facilities levy on the November ballot, the Yellow Springs school board has taken the final move necessary to place the measure before district voters this fall.

  • YS school board— Facilities levy moves forward

    By Carol SimmonsJuly 13, 2021

    As anticipated, the Yellow Springs school board on Friday morning, June 25, took the first step in putting a levy measure on the November ballot to pay for the proposed construction of a K–12 school, projected to cost nearly $35.6 million, at the current site of the middle/high school campus on East Enon Road.

  • YS school facilities— BOE weighs levy ask

    By Carol SimmonsJune 27, 2021

    Having last month approved a $35.5 million master plan to construct a K–12 school at the middle/high school campus on East Enon Road, the Yellow Springs school board is nearing a decision about a levy measure to support the project.

  • 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.

  • Facilities survey— Many reluctant to hike taxes

    By Carol SimmonsMay 21, 2021

    The results of a new survey that polled Yellow Springs school district voters about their views concerning local school facilities — and the anticipated $30 million to $35 million cost to undertake major renovations or build new — suggest a dilemma for district leaders.

  • 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.

  • Facilities options narrow

    By Carol SimmonsMarch 15, 2021

    Presented with questions about their level of support for four proposed scenarios to address identified structural needs in the district’s schools, a majority of the participants at a community forum last week responded that they “strongly support” construction of a new K–12 facility at the current site of the middle/high school on East Enon Road.

  • The Briar Patch— Life cycles of community

    By Cheryl DurgansMarch 10, 2021

    Yellow Springers will soon be asked to support efforts to either build a new school or improve the structures that are already in place through a new school levy. Up until three years ago, a school levy passing in Yellow Springs had been a no-brainer for several generations.