Village Schools Section :: Page 60

• Yellow Springs schools on two-hour delay Wednesday, Jan. 7

  By Matt MindeJanuary 7, 2015

  

  The Yellow Springs Board of Education has placed village schools on a two-hour delay for Wednesday, Jan. 29 due to the continuing extreme cold.

• Year’s first snow shuts Yellow Springs schools

  By YS News StaffJanuary 6, 2015

  

  Yellow Springs Village schools are closed Tuesday, Jan. 6 due to snow and cold.

• Yellow Springs Schools’ open enrollment acts as a stabilizer

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 27, 2014

  

  This year Yellow Springs schools currently have the highest enrollment the local district has seen since 1984. However, 23 percent of the students are commuting to Yellow Springs from their homes in other districts. That number of open enrollment students is also the highest it has been in the district’s history.  The Yellow Springs school […]

• Rain on the parade

  By Matt MindeNovember 4, 2014

  

  The seasonally decorated students (and teachers) of Mills Lawn School had to make do with holding the annual Halloween Parade indoors.

• Yellow Springs High School students to try alternative tests

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 23, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs High School students are scheduled to try out the first of a bevy of alternative standardized tests that the school district is considering for next year.

• Children get a choice at Montessori school

  By Megan BachmanOctober 16, 2014

  

  It’s a school without teachers, a place where the children teach themselves. What sounds radical is a concept developed by Dr. Maria Montessori more than 100 years ago and now in use in more than 7,000 schools around the world.

• Mills Lawn students walk and roll to school

  By Matt MindeOctober 9, 2014

  

  For Walk to School Day last Wednesday, Mills Lawn Students were encouraged to get themselves to school under their own power.

• Families weigh pros, cons of school testing

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 3, 2014

  

  Since national and state education leaders began revising standardized testing requirements that will more than double the hours and days students will spend testing from last year to this year, parents have been asking questions.

• Parents consider effects of increased standardized testing

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 25, 2014

  

  At a school forum this week, school administrators encouraged parents to contact their legislators regarding their concerns about increased state and federal standardized tests.

• Students can bowl this winter

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Bowling is back. At its meeting Sept. 11, the Yellow Springs School Board approved a proposal to make bowling the newest official sport at Yellow Springs High School.