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• 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.

• Making the call for calamity days

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 27, 2014

  

  During this exceptionally cold and snowy winter, Yellow Springs School Superintendent Mario Basora has closed local schools eight times, three more than the state’s maximum of five calamity days per school year without having to make up the days.

• School board— School of rock replaces ‘flex’

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  An overwhelming majority of Yellow Springs High School students last fall voiced disappointment with part of a new scheduling system that was implemented at the beginning of the school year.

• Angela Wright leaves school board with hope

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 9, 2014

  

  Having served 20 years as a Yellow Springs school board member over a span of three decades, Angela Wright has seen her share of ebb and flow in the district.

• District honors former Yellow Springs School Board members

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 26, 2013

  

  At the Dec. 12 school board meeting, outgoing board President Benji Maruyama and board member Angela Wright were honored for their service to the district.

• How much tech should be in Yellow Springs schools?

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 28, 2013

  

  The Yellow Springs community needs to have a serious discussion about the technology that local students need to keep up with today’s educational demands, Yellow Springs Superintendent Mario Basora said at the November school board meeting last week.