Articles About village schools

• Schools prepare to reopen Aug. 27

  By Carol SimmonsJune 27, 2020

  

  The current message from Ohio’s governor is that schools will reopen in the fall, but local districts will have a great deal of control over how that happens and what the return looks like, Yellow Springs Schools Superintendent Terri Holden told the local school board last week.

• School district extends meal program

  By Carol SimmonsJune 17, 2020

  

  School may have concluded for the summer, but the Yellow Springs student lunch and breakfast program is continuing for an additional month, through the end of June.

• Yellow Springs Schools— District faces funding cuts, uncertainty

  By Carol SimmonsJune 11, 2020

  

  A $300 million cut in funding to Ohio schools this fiscal year, announced by Gov. Mike DeWine in May, will mean the loss of more than $140,000 in anticipated revenue for Yellow Springs Schools over May and June, according to state and district administrators.

• Schools closed through May 1

  By Carol SimmonsApril 4, 2020

  

  Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday, March 30, that he has ordered the continued closure of all kindergarten through 12th-grade schools until at least May 1.

• YS Schools— Learning continues despite closure

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 27, 2020

  

  This week would have been spring break for Yellow Springs schools, if they — and all other kindergarten through 12th grade institutions in the state — had not closed a week earlier, as ordered by Gov. Mike DeWine in response to the worldwide novel coronavirus outbreak.

• Schools adjust to closure

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 25, 2020

  

  DeWine announced a three-week shutdown Thursday afternoon, March 12, with the closure to begin at the end of the school day Monday, March 16, and students set to return to class Monday, April 6.

• Peaceful assembly

  By Megan BachmanMarch 11, 2020

  

  Mills Lawn School students sang, marched, spoke and celebrated during an assembly on the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, Feb. 27, the culminating event of Black History Month at the local school.

• School vouchers hit home

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 21, 2020

  

  While some Ohio families benefit, a growing number of the state’s school districts, including Yellow Springs, have found themselves landing in an undesirable position.

• YS School Board— Sixth graders give back through service

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 12, 2019

  

  Mills Lawn sixth graders are learning to think of themselves in a civic context — as community members with the ability to be of service and contribute to the greater good.

• Students of the Month — October 2019

  By YS News StaffNovember 25, 2019

  

  Each month, McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School acknowledge one student from each grade who has shown exemplary work as a student, classmate and citizen of the school. The schools have selected the following six students, who best modeled these efforts in the month of October.