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• District looks to hire student advocate

  By Lauren ShowsJune 13, 2022

  

  The YS Board of Education held a special meeting Tuesday, May 31, in order to approve some time-sensitive actions, including the job description for a new student advocate to be hired for the district. The position as described was unanimously approved by the four board members who voted.

• School Facilities Committee assesses issues

  By Lauren ShowsMay 28, 2022

  

  Among the issues identified by building users, the largest concerns discussed at the meeting were heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC, systems and air quality; bathrooms; and safety and security.

• YS Schools Facilities Committee begins

  By Lauren ShowsMay 4, 2022

  

  At its first meeting on Thursday, April 7, the YS Schools Facilities Committee, recently formed by the school board, focused on clarifying its purpose and dividing tasks between its members to work toward that purpose.

• HB 126 could impact school tax revenue

  By Lauren Shows

  

  A bill passed earlier this month by both the Ohio House and Senate is on track to impact the ways school districts are able to collect tax revenues — including in Yellow Springs.

• School board hears Greenspace plan

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 9, 2022

  

  A local group seeking to preserve about five undeveloped acres on the western side of the Mills Lawn Elementary School property presented a land conservation proposal earlier this month to the Yellow Springs school board.

• School board approves facilities committee

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 7, 2022

  

  The board’s new plan involves forming a committee that will explore the costs and ramifications of a phased, permanent-improvement plan to repair and upgrade the district’s buildings, compared with the costs and considerations associated with new or partial construction.

• New school board makeup expected to bring changes

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 24, 2022

  

  After more than a decade, when changes in school board makeup occurred mostly one new member at a time, amid the constancy of veteran office holders serving multiple terms and carrying over familiar approaches, newcomers are in the super-majority as 2022 begins.

• New school board members take seats

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 23, 2022

  

  The Yellow Springs school board’s annual organizational meeting, conducted in the Mills Lawn gym on Thursday, Jan. 13, began with the swearing in of its three newest members: Dorothée Bouquet, Judith Hempfling and Amy Magnus.

• YS school board— Deficit delayed by one year

  By Carol SimmonsJune 5, 2021

  

  Revenue over the past 10 months is about $500,000 ahead of budgeted projections, while expenses are about $500,000 under budget.

• Teacher vaccinations tied to reopening by March 1

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 24, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs students, whose instruction has been 100% online since the start of the 2020–21 school year, will return to the classroom — at least part time — no later than March 1.