Articles About Yellow Springs Schools

• Haller to retire from YS schools after 30 years

  By Cheryl DurgansJune 10, 2022

  

  After three decades of work in the YS Schools, high school intervention specialist Donna Haller is retiring.

• Schools project deficit by 2024

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 13, 2020

  

  With the expectation that the district will be going to voters for more funds in the form of a facilities bond levy in late 2021, Treasurer Emrick presented the annual five-year financial forecast during the school board’s most recent meeting.

• Yellow Springs Schools facilities upgrades— $30 million cost expected

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 11, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs School District leaders anticipate a $30 million price tag, at minimum, to upgrade the district’s buildings, whether those improvements take the form of new construction or major renovations.

• Countering racism in Yellow Springs schools

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 23, 2020

  

  In the News’ ongoing “Facing Race” series, we turn this week to the local school district for a look at how the schools are reckoning with race and implementing new efforts, alongside continuing initiatives, to counter racism’s presence and effects.

• Yellow Springs Schools— New academic year to begin online

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 5, 2020

  

  In a specially called meeting Saturday morning, July 25, the Yellow Springs school board unanimously approved a plan to restart the 2020–21 academic year online, with instruction to be presented by district teachers.

• 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.

• Students adapt to remote learning

  By Carol SimmonsApril 29, 2020

  

  Interacting with teachers and classmates mostly through websites and online programs, distance learning provides an alternative to in-person classes.

• 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.