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• Yellow Springs Schools— No early end to academic year

  By Carol SimmonsMay 6, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs Schools Superintendent Terri Holden announced Friday, April 24, that despite the district’s hopes to end the school year two weeks early, after students reach the minimum instructional hours required by the state, distance learning will continue through the district’s originally scheduled final day, May 29.

• 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.

• State nixes YS school district’s hope to end academic year early

  By Carol SimmonsApril 25, 2020

  

  In a letter to district families Friday, April 24, Superintendent Terri Holden wrote that the Ohio Department of Education, or ODE, “has provided strongly worded guidance stating that all schools should remain in session virtually until the last scheduled school day.”

• Yellow Springs School District explores early end to school year

  By Carol SimmonsApril 22, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs’ final day is currently set as May 29, with teachers’ last day scheduled June 1. But Superintendent Terri Holden would like to shorten the school year by two weeks and conclude the instructional year May 15.

• Yellow Springs Board of Education Meeting

  By YS News StaffApril 18, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs Board of Education Special Meeting

• Mills Lawn elementary school principal to leave district

  By Carol SimmonsApril 10, 2020

  

  Matt Housh, principal of Mills Lawn elementary school for the past decade, announced in a letter to school families Tuesday, April 7, that he has accepted a position with Huber Heights City Schools and will be leaving the Yellow Springs district at the end of the academic year.

• 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.

• Yellow Springs Board of Education Meeting

  By YS News StaffApril 2, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs Board of Education Agenda

• 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.

• Power of the Pen advances to regionals— Mighty writers make their mark

  By YS News StaffMarch 25, 2020

  

  The McKinney Middle School Power of the Pen writers won several awards at the district tournament in January.