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• School board to hire Ruetschle Architects facilities improvement design

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 8, 2024

  

  The school district’s facilities improvement project — particularly its timeline for both design and construction — was the topic of focus at a special meeting of the school board Wednesday, Jan. 24.

• Architect firm chosen for school facilities project

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 26, 2024

  

  Ruetschle Architects, and in particular firm Vice President Mike Ruetschle, worked with the district in 2022 and 2023 as a consultant to create a master facilities plan to put before voters.

• 2023 In Review | Education

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 19, 2024

  

  At The Antioch School, Antioch College, Village Schools and Children’s Center, 2023 was an educational year.

• School facilities improvement process begins

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 31, 2023

  

  At its Dec. 14 regular meeting, the Yellow Springs Board of Education took its first step toward realizing the district school facilities improvements that were approved by voters last month.

• Local schools need bus drivers

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 23, 2023

  

  Though the Yellow Springs School District hasn’t seen interruptions in providing bus services to students, the local district is not immune to the nationwide shortage.

• Extracurriculars get kids cooking

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 9, 2023

  

  On Monday, Nov. 27, a group of Mills Lawn students donned their aprons and worked together to make bags of trail mix as part of their weekly “Let’s Eat” after-school program.

• Operations levy renewal expected for March

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 22, 2023

  

  At its most recent meeting on Thursday, Nov. 9, the Yellow Springs school board voted unanimously to approve a resolution of necessity that will place a substitute operations levy on the March 19, 2024, ballot.

• ‘Sources of Strength’ | New school program encourages wellbeing

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 19, 2023

  

  The new program, “Sources of Strength,” is sponsored by the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation and PreventionFirst and is designed to reduce the risk of suicide, bullying and substance abuse.

• Yellow Springs school board discusses high rate of student absences

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 6, 2023

  

  Students are considered chronically absent if they miss 10% of instruction during a school year. That percentage is calculated via the ratio of absent hours — both excused or unexcused — to total possible hours of instruction during a school year.

• Students of the Month | October 2023

  By YS News StaffOctober 25, 2023

  

  YS schools announced the October recipients of student and faculty awards at the Oct. 12 Board of Education meeting.