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• Talk to Holden at ‘Coffee Talks’

  By YS News StaffNovember 18, 2019

  

  Superintendent of Schools Dr. Terri L. Holden will host “Coffee Talks with Terri” on several mornings through April of 2020. The first talk will be held Tuesday, Nov. 19, 8:30–9:30 a.m. at the Emporium.

• Yellow Springs Board of Education Meeting

  By YS News StaffNovember 7, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs Board of Education Agenda

• Yellow Springs Schools— Expenses outpace revenues

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 24, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs Schools will be able to continue to balance its budget through fiscal year 2023, but the following year’s solvency is uncertain, Interim Treasurer Tammy Emrick has concluded in compiling the district’s latest five-year forecast.

• Fourth year of taking students ‘Into the Wild’

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 18, 2019

  

  All 65 members of the seventh-grade class at McKinney Middle School participated last month in the three-day, 53-mile,  camping-biking experience known as Into the Wild.

• School facilities tours— Top needs highlighted

  By Audrey HackettOctober 17, 2019

  

  In a walk-around that lasted almost two hours on the evening of Sept. 18, outdoor issues such as the lack of a fence around the property and indoor issues such as energy-inefficient windows, lack of central air conditioning in parts of the building, lack of a separate cafeteria and lack of learning spaces conducive to group work were among the issues highlighted by Housh and Carter.

• Task force to seek community input

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Meeting regularly since its formation last spring by then-Yellow Springs Superintendent Mario Basora, the schools facilities task force is close to taking its findings out into the community in a series of public meetings, where members plan to share the information they’ve gathered and collect feedback.

• Students of the Month — September 2019

  By YS News StaffOctober 10, 2019

  

  McKinney Middle School and YS High School have instituted a “Student of the Month” program, each month acknowledging one student from each grade who has shown exemplary work as a student, classmate and citizen of the school. The schools have selected the following six students who best modeled these efforts in the month of September, pictured above from left.

• School board race— Turner, Ellison unopposed

  By Megan Bachman

  

  This fall’s race for the Yellow Springs School Board won’t be much of a race at all — both candidates are running unopposed for seats they already hold. Sylvia Ellison, 55, is running for her third term on the board. Turner, 45, is running for his first term for a seat he was appointed to fill last fall.

• Yellow Springs Schools — Work session to consider future

  By Carol Simmons

  

  With the new academic year in full swing, the Yellow Springs School Board  will take time Saturday, Oct. 5, to talk about the future.

• Yellow Springs Board of Education Meeting

  By YS News StaffOctober 3, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs Board of Education Agenda