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• Teachers urge caution—Personnel cuts detrimental?

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 10, 2011

  With a healthy cash carryover, the Yellow Springs district should be “judicious” about decisions to eliminate staff and cut benefits, which could end up hurting the district more than helping, the teachers said.

• Ohio reduces funds for schools

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 27, 2011

  According to former Governor Strickland’s Evidence-Based funding model, the local school district is scheduled to receive $1,037,354 from the state to educate its 621 in-district students this year.

• Schools look at fiscal crisis

  By Megan BachmanDecember 23, 2010

  In order to avoid a projected negative cash balance by the end of the 2013 fiscal year, school board members at their Dec. 9 meeting discussed ways to reduce the district’s 2010–2011 budget.

• School’s 2020 plan kicks off

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 16, 2010

  The Yellow Springs School Board’s Class of 2020 strategic planning process kicked off Saturday morning with a community workshop.

• School’s 2020 plan kicks off

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 9, 2010

  The Yellow Springs School Board’s Class of 2020 strategic planning process kicked off Saturday morning with a community workshop at the Glen Helen Building.

• Attracting young familes focus of joint meeting

  By Megan BachmanAugust 28, 2010

  

  At last night’s joint between the Yellow Springs School Board and Village Council, the first such meeting in five years, board and council members discussed with the public ways to attract more young families to the village.

• Schools get a “green” makeover

  By Megan BachmanAugust 16, 2010

  

  New for the 2010 school year is an energy-efficiency makeover at all three school buildings and an energy curriculum to match.

• School deficit is bigger and came sooner than expected

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 17, 2010

  The Yellow Springs school district budget deficit is bigger and increasing faster than expected, according to Superintendent Tony Armocida at the school board meeting on Thursday, June 10.

• Community Summit sparks ideas on how to make schools better

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 27, 2010

  Students, teachers and community members arrived at four main recommendations during a meeting in March at a “Community Summit for Yellow Springs Schools,” an event aimed at “using respectful and innovative methods of discussion to build a successful future for Yellow Springs schools.