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• Basketball standout aims for 2,000

  By YS News StaffJanuary 26, 2021

  

  Angie Smith, now a junior at Yellow Springs High School, is on her way to achieving an impressive feat: scoring 2,000 points by the end of her senior year.

• Teacher vaccinations tied to reopening by March 1

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 24, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs students, whose instruction has been 100% online since the start of the 2020–21 school year, will return to the classroom — at least part time — no later than March 1.

• School sports amid pandemic

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 19, 2021

  

  Although the Yellow Springs school district has yet to resume in-person classes, the athletic programs at YS High School and McKinney Middle School decided to field teams and conduct games as close as possible to regular season play.

• COVID-19 vaccines for school staff tied to March 1 reopening

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 8, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs Schools Superintendent Terri Holden says the district will agree to Gov. Mike DeWine’s stipulation that students return to in-person classes, at least part time, by March 1, in order to receive COVID-19 vaccinations for teachers and staff beginning the first week in February.

• 2020 Year in Review: Village Schools

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 7, 2021

  

  Calendar year 2020 began and ended with Yellow Springs school district leaders discussing identified structural needs in the local school buildings and how to address them, but the majority of the year was occupied by the district’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• YS Schools— Board OKs hybrid transition plan

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 28, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs school district leaders are making plans for students to return to in-person classes, but exactly when that will be is uncertain.

• Special Yellow Springs Board of Education meeting

  By YS News StaffDecember 23, 2020

  

  A special Board of Education will be live-streamed Monday, Dec. 18, at 12:30 p.m. on the schools’ YouTube channel.

• Board approves plan for eventual return to in-person instruction

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 15, 2020

  

  The Yellow Springs school board approved a plan for the district’s second semester, which starts Jan. 19, to begin transitioning students back to the classroom for in-person instruction.

• 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.