Articles About School Building Plans

• Facilities task force sets priorities

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 26, 2019

  

  About 10 months since its first meeting in March, the School Facilities Task Force hosted a community meeting Tuesday, Dec. 10, to share its findings and potential recommendations to the school board and to take questions and feedback from community members.

• School facilities tours— Top needs highlighted

  By Audrey HackettOctober 17, 2019

  

  In a walk-around that lasted almost two hours on the evening of Sept. 18, outdoor issues such as the lack of a fence around the property and indoor issues such as energy-inefficient windows, lack of central air conditioning in parts of the building, lack of a separate cafeteria and lack of learning spaces conducive to group work were among the issues highlighted by Housh and Carter.

• Task force to seek community input

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Meeting regularly since its formation last spring by then-Yellow Springs Superintendent Mario Basora, the schools facilities task force is close to taking its findings out into the community in a series of public meetings, where members plan to share the information they’ve gathered and collect feedback.

• Schools survey underway

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 5, 2017

  

  This week and next, several hundred villagers will be contacted by Wright State researchers and asked about their preferences for addressing the needs of local school facilities.

• Board of Education— Meeting focuses on facilities

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 28, 2017

  

  The Yellow Springs Board of Education met in a work session on Wednesday, Sept. 13, to take stock of the ongoing discussion about the future of the district’s physical facilities and to determine the board’s next steps.

• School facilities question— One town builds, one does not

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 17, 2017

  

  In the past 10 or so years, every school district in Greene County, except Yellow Springs, has either already built new school buildings or passed a levy to do so soon. The same is true for each district contiguous to the Yellow Springs schools.

• ‘Community Pulse’ meeting— YS school facilities discussed

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 27, 2017

  

  About 50 villagers heard from a panel of eight Yellow Springs School district teachers and shared their ideas, questions and concerns on the future of the district’s school buildings Tuesday, July 11, at Mills Lawn School.

• Meeting eyes Yellow Springs Schools facilities

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 6, 2017

  

  About 40 villagers attended the school district’s first “Community Pulse” event June 15, to focus on the condition of the district’s buildings.

• Potential Mills Lawn School facilities site discussed

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMay 25, 2017

  

  Responding to public feedback following the recent school facilities forum, District Superintendent Mario Basora stated at last week’s school board meeting that “no decision has yet been made” regarding moving forward with new school facilities, as “all plans are transparently still under discussion.”

• New Yellow Springs school buildings under consideration

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMay 18, 2017

  

  Last week, the Yellow Springs Combined School District hosted its second community forum designed to update residents on the plans for new school buildings and to gauge public feedback on the project.