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• PBL training center debuts in Yellow Springs schools

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 26, 2016

  

  At the May 12 school board meeting, the goal of creating a PBL training center became reality, with unanimous board approval of the YS Deeper Learning Training Center.

• School Board: Yellow Springs teachers coach PBL

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMay 12, 2016

  

  Yellow Springs Schools superintendent Mario Basora recently reported that five project-based learning, or PBL, coaches and two administrators traveled to Nashville for a PBL coach training seminar.

• Teacher resigns after investigation

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 14, 2016

  

  Following an internal school district investigation, longtime Yellow Springs teacher Shawn Jackson resigned his position recently.

• Feds deny testing waiver for Yellow Springs schools

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 25, 2016

  

  After months of delay, Ohio’s testing waiver application got turned down by the federal department of education recently, but the consortium of schools requesting the waiver — including Yellow Springs schools — is continuing the fight for fewer mandated state and federal tests and more forms of alternative assessment.

• 2015 election results

  By YS News StaffNovember 5, 2015

  

  2015 Election results, by precinct

• School board— District fundraiser job considered

  By Lauren HeatonJune 25, 2015

  

  For the first time since devising the 2020 Strategic Plan five years ago, Yellow Springs school board members agreed to explore the possibility of using public funds to hire a professional fundraiser for the school district.

• YSHS gains national honor a second time

  By Lauren HeatonMay 28, 2015

  

  For the second time in the past five years, Yellow Springs High School was named one of the state’s top high schools in the annual U.S. News and World Report high school survey.

• Yellow Springs schools eye hiring fundraiser

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 26, 2015

  

  Yellow Springs schools are considering increasing expenditures next year for a new full-time employee to help raise private funds for the district.

• Yellow Springs Schools’ open enrollment acts as a stabilizer

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 27, 2014

  

  This year Yellow Springs schools currently have the highest enrollment the local district has seen since 1984. However, 23 percent of the students are commuting to Yellow Springs from their homes in other districts. That number of open enrollment students is also the highest it has been in the district’s history.  The Yellow Springs school […]

• Yellow Springs High School students to try alternative tests

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 23, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs High School students are scheduled to try out the first of a bevy of alternative standardized tests that the school district is considering for next year.