Articles About standardized tests

• YS School District talks ‘State of the Schools’

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 11, 2024

  

  District enrollment is up from last year, breaking a several-year trend of declining student numbers; there are currently 634 students being educated in the district, with 436 being residents and 198 open-enrolled.

• Village schools— New year, new requirements

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 7, 2017

  

  With the new school year also comes a variety of new initiatives and policies — some the result of changing state and federal requirements and funding.

• Yellow Springs Schools opt for locked doors

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 22, 2016

  

  At its December meeting, the school board agreed to go forward with plans to add a buzzer and camera to the front doors of Mills Lawn Elementary, a decision spurred by recent events in that school.

• Interpreting Yellow Springs Schools’ report card

  By Audrey HackettMarch 31, 2016

  

  Ohio released its 2014–2015 school report cards last month, which are measures of student and school performance based on an array of state tests.

• Ohio approves school testing waiver

  By Lauren HeatonApril 16, 2015

  

  Yellow Springs public school students are one big step closer to taking significantly fewer standardized tests next school year, as the state of Ohio approved the district’s assessment waiver application last week.

• Parents consider effects of increased standardized testing

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 25, 2014

  

  At a school forum this week, school administrators encouraged parents to contact their legislators regarding their concerns about increased state and federal standardized tests.