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• Icy weather closes schools

  By YS News StaffFebruary 22, 2013

  Yellow Springs Schools are closed today, Feb. 22.

• Guns and the Village: Reviewing safety in our schools

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 14, 2013

  

  The rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 has caused school communities across the country to reassess the safety of their buildings and their ability to respond to violent threats and crises, especially those related to an active shooter.

• McKinney takes top writing honors

  By YS News Staff

  

  McKinney Middle School students took several top honors at the annual Power of the Pen District Tournament held on Saturday, Feb. 2, at YSHS.

• Village schools — Private fund fuels change

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 7, 2013

  

  Yellow Springs schools are on the road toward change, and investigating other education models is one piece of the complex web of adjustments the district expects to make over the next eight years as part of its strategic plan.

• McKinney artists hold their own ‘Chopped’

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 18, 2013

  

  McKinney eighth grade students competed in a series of timed art contests this week to make the cut or get “chopped.”

• Schools offer drug counseling

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 27, 2012

  At its meeting on Dec. 13, the Yellow Springs school board agreed to contract with Greene County’s TCN Behavioral Health Services for substance abuse prevention and treatment services for students in the school.

• Mills Lawn kids tip hats to 1940s

  By Megan BachmanDecember 13, 2012

  

  The silly laughs and sensational songs heard on 1940s radio will be re-performed live in the Mills Lawn biennial all-school musical, The Albert Brown Show, featuring some of the era’s comedy routines, music and dance numbers and celebrity knockoffs.

• Mills Lawn puts on 1940s radio show

  By Megan BachmanDecember 12, 2012

  

  The silly laughs and sensational songs heard on 1940s radio will be re-performed live in the Mills Lawn biennial all-school musical, The Albert Brown Show, which opens Friday.

• Students sail by state exam

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 6, 2012

  By design of the evaluation tool, the Yellow Springs school district fell this year from “excellent with distinction” to just “excellent” in its quality designation on the State of Ohio report card. But the apparent reduction in status was merely a technical result of the State’s metrics, as the district received exactly the same student-wide achievement score as last year, when it was labeled “excellent with distinction” for the second consecutive year.

• Making dough

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 29, 2012

  

  The fourth-grade class at Mills Lawn school proudly presented a check to the Yellow Springs Food Bank this week for $182.92. (Photo by Lauren Heaton)