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• Mills Lawn School principal finalists named

  By Carol SimmonsMay 4, 2021

  

  The school district announced earlier this week that a 12-member interview committee had selected Cheryl Lowe, a fifth-grade teacher at the school, and Megan Winston, an assistant principal at Xenia High School, as the top candidates.

• Yellow Springs schools— Plan addresses learning losses

  By Carol SimmonsMay 2, 2021

  

  Concerned about the educational setbacks experienced by students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ohio Department of Education has required all districts in the state to submit a document detailing how they plan to assess and then address potential learning losses or delays.

• Person to take ‘different path’

  By Carol SimmonsApril 23, 2021

  

  Michelle Person, who is finishing her first year as principal at Mills Lawn Elementary School, formally announced her resignation, effective June 30, during the most recent school board meeting Thursday, April 8.

• Forums invite facilities input

  By Carol SimmonsApril 20, 2021

  

  The Yellow Springs school facilities master planning process is continuing to move forward, and district Superintendent Terri Holden expects to take a proposal to the school board in a specially called meeting later this month.

• ‘Open Air Village’— Where kids, nature take the lead

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 24, 2021

  

  Open Air Village focuses on child-led education and, as suggested by its name, is committed to keeping its young students engaged with nature by spending large swaths of the school day outside.

• Yellow Springs schools— BOE approves 100% in-person instruction

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 19, 2021

  

  More than a year after all K–12 schools in Ohio temporarily closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and months after most neighboring districts returned to in-person instruction, Yellow Springs public school students will go back into the classroom full time beginning Monday, April 5.

• Facilities options narrow

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 15, 2021

  

  Presented with questions about their level of support for four proposed scenarios to address identified structural needs in the district’s schools, a majority of the participants at a community forum last week responded that they “strongly support” construction of a new K–12 facility at the current site of the middle/high school on East Enon Road.

• Yellow Springs schools— April 5 eyed for larger in-person return to classes

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 13, 2021

  

  During a special work session of the Yellow Springs school board, conducted online Saturday morning, March 6, the district superintendent said she is working on a plan to increase students’ in-person classroom time to near pre-pandemic levels.

• Fuller classroom return likely in April

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 8, 2021

  

  During a work session of the Yellow Springs school board, conducted online Saturday morning, March 6, the district superintendent reported on the likely possibility of moving to a nearly full-time in-person instruction plan for all students in early April.

• School facilities— Forum takes public pulse

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 4, 2021

  

  Questions about costs, the future of the Mills Lawn school property and recommendations by the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission dominated public comments last week during the first of three planned community forums to discuss the future of Yellow Springs’ public school buildings.