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• Yellow Springs school board eyes rising PBL costs

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMarch 17, 2016

  

  The Yellow Springs School District’s budget work session concerned itself with overall ways to increase revenue as the district slides to deficit spending.

• Yellow Springs High School dancers cut ‘Footloose’

  By Audrey HackettMarch 10, 2016

  

  One week and one day out from opening night, the cast and crew of “Footloose” was hard at work, warming up their voices with crisp sounds: “va, va, va,” “no, no, no, no, no” and several rounds of “red leather, yellow leather.”

• Mills Lawn students plan for a bench

  By YS News StaffMarch 3, 2016

  

  Fourth-graders in Brian Knostman’s class at Mills Lawn Elementary are leading a project to make Glen Forest Cemetery more comfortable for mourners visiting loved ones and friends.

• Feds deny testing waiver for Yellow Springs schools

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 25, 2016

  

  After months of delay, Ohio’s testing waiver application got turned down by the federal department of education recently, but the consortium of schools requesting the waiver — including Yellow Springs schools — is continuing the fight for fewer mandated state and federal tests and more forms of alternative assessment.

• From Liberia to the village

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Seventeen-year-old Levi Jackson, from Liberia, has lived through a brutal civil war and the devastating Ebola epidemic, giving him compelling reasons to seek educational opportunities in the United States.

• Mills Lawn School third-graders learn to be citizens

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 18, 2016

  

  Students in Ms. Morgan’s third-grade class at Mills Lawn came upon several surprises as they studied local government during the past two months.

• Antioch School fundraiser— Comedy gala returns

  By Carol Simmons

  

  In its 20th year — and its fifth including a comedy show segment — the 2016 Antioch School Auction Gala & Comedy Show will be Saturday, March 5, at the college’s Foundry Theater.

• Yellow Springs Schools are on two hour delay Wednesday, February 10

  By Matt MindeFebruary 9, 2016

  

  Yellow Springs Schools are on two hour delay Wednesday, February 10.

• Mills Lawn School presents a winter concert

  By Matt MindeFebruary 1, 2016

  

  At Mills Lawn School’s January 27 Winter Concert all the fine performers were equally good listeners.

• UPDATE: Yellow Springs schools CLOSED Wednesday, Jan. 20

  By Matt MindeJanuary 20, 2016

  

  The Yellow Springs Board of Education has closed village schools for Wednesday, Jan. 20 due to snow, cold and poor road conditions.