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• New beginnings for YS schools

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 26, 2021

  

  The first day of classes for Yellow Springs Schools was Monday, Aug. 23. And while the start of a new academic year is typically cause for heightened emotion — whether excitement or dread — this new start contains more feeling than typical years past.

• Yellow Springs schools to require masks

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 18, 2021

  

  The beginning of the new school year this month will look a lot like the end of last year for Yellow Springs district students, at least in terms of COVID-19 precautions.

• YS school board — Facilities levy set for ballot

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 23, 2021

  

  After months of incremental steps leading toward the goal of putting a nearly $35.6 million facilities levy on the November ballot, the Yellow Springs school board has taken the final move necessary to place the measure before district voters this fall.

• YS school board— Facilities levy moves forward

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 13, 2021

  

  As anticipated, the Yellow Springs school board on Friday morning, June 25, took the first step in putting a levy measure on the November ballot to pay for the proposed construction of a K–12 school, projected to cost nearly $35.6 million, at the current site of the middle/high school campus on East Enon Road.

• YS school facilities— BOE weighs levy ask

  By Carol SimmonsJune 27, 2021

  

  Having last month approved a $35.5 million master plan to construct a K–12 school at the middle/high school campus on East Enon Road, the Yellow Springs school board is nearing a decision about a levy measure to support the project.

• Longtime Mills Lawn teachers retire

  By Carol SimmonsJune 23, 2021

  

  This is the second of two articles featuring teachers who have retired from the local school district this academic year.

• Email sparks legal concern

  By Carol SimmonsJune 14, 2021

  

  The ground rules for who can support levy campaigns, and when and how they do it, arose this week when a community member questioned the legality of an email forwarded by the Yellow Springs Schools district office.

• Teachers Morgan, Nickell to retire

  By Lauren ShowsJune 12, 2021

  

  As the 2020–21 school year — a unique one by any standard — came to a close, so did the years of service provided by five educators in the local school system.

• YS school board— Deficit delayed by one year

  By Carol SimmonsJune 5, 2021

  

  Revenue over the past 10 months is about $500,000 ahead of budgeted projections, while expenses are about $500,000 under budget.

• School board OK’s new K–12 plan

  By Carol SimmonsMay 30, 2021

  

  The projected cost is about $35.5 million, though the district expects an eventual state reimbursement of 26%, more than $9.2 million.