Articles About Yellow Springs School Board

• District talks state report card

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 14, 2025

  

  District enrollment this fall stands at 608 students, with about 36% of students qualifying for free and reduced lunch. Roughly 17% of district students are identified with disabilities.

• Vote-seekers sound off at James A. McKee Candidates Nights

  By YS News StaffOctober 28, 2025

  

  Villagers packed the Mills Lawn gym Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 15 and 16, for the Candidates Night community forums, hosted by the James A. McKee Association.

• YS Schools talk Yondr pouches, nine months later

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 8, 2024

  

  McKinney and YSHS Principal Jack Hatert, who spoke to the News last week, said using the Yondr pouches has been “really smooth” for the district thus far, and, in his estimation, worth the investment.

• School board talks Morgan Fields

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 23, 2024

  

  The YS Board of Education returned to the discussion of a potential affordable housing development on land currently owned by the school district at its most recent regular meeting Thursday, Aug. 8.

• Village Council talks ‘layers of encumbrances’ on Morgan Fields

  By Reilly DixonJuly 23, 2024

  

  At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, July 15, Council members again revisited the topic of pursuing a tax credit application that could one day lead to the creation of a 50-unit, low-income housing development on the YS school district-owned soccer fields.

• School board approves soccer fields resolution

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 22, 2024

  

  At its Thursday, July 11, regular meeting, the YS school board approved a resolution that could help bring a proposed 50-unit affordable housing development closer to fruition — provided several further hurdles are cleared.

• The value of a soccer field

  By Reilly DixonJuly 11, 2024

  

  If, in the coming months, all the local stakeholders agree that the Morgan Fields are, in fact, the best site to build the future housing development, then where would all the soccer players go?

• Village Council continues low-income housing talks

  By Reilly DixonJune 24, 2024

  

  As previously reported in the News, YS Home, Inc. has been petitioning for municipal support for the organization’s pursuit of millions of dollars in housing tax credits that could help finance the creation of a 50-unit housing development that would target low-income families.

• Request to censure school board member fails

  By Lauren ShowsJune 8, 2024

  

  At a special meeting of the YS school board Tuesday, May 21, a request to censure a member of the board that was originally put forth in February was not approved, as one member abstained from voting and the vote count was 2–2.

• Elected bodies weigh low-income housing proposal on school land

  By Reilly DixonMay 27, 2024

  

  For the first time in public meetings, YS Home, Inc. unveiled a new, large-scale affordable housing proposal: the development of a 50-unit, low-income rental complex that may one day be sited on three acres of school district-owned land.