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• Schools open to a new future

  By Lauren HeatonApril 14, 2011

  Especially when it comes to the education of the community’s children, change is scary. But it is also an enormous opportunity to turn the things in the Yellow Springs schools that currently don’t work very well into academically stimulating experiences.

• ‘Potterluck’ pushes fun, literacy

  By Kelsey Cundiff

  

  The senior project requirements given to every senior at Yellow Springs High School state that each student’s project should “reflect a meaningful purpose that is either geared toward social action and community, self-education and growth, or education and facilitation.” This year’s group of seniors has taken those ideals to heart to produce a number of projects that could benefit the community.

• Board approves school cuts

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 24, 2011

  At the Yellow Springs school board meeting Thursday, March 10, five Yellow Springs High School students spoke in support of their orchestra teacher, whose position was one of many slated to be cut that night.

• Education film series concludes with “Two Million Minutes”

  By Megan Bachman

  

  “Two Million Minutes,” a documentary comparing high school students in the United States with their counterparts in China and India, will be shown as the last film in the Yellow Springs School Board’s series on Saturday, March 26, at 1 p.m. at the Little Art Theatre.

• Village schools host final Future of Education speaker

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 22, 2011

  

  Matt Fischer, the final guest in the Future of Education Speaker Series, will appear at Antioch College’s Herndon Gallery (South Hall) next Tuesday at 7 p.m.

• Roosevelt speaks on schools crisis

  By Matt MindeMarch 17, 2011

  

  Public education in America is in dire straits, and people of all political persuasions need to put aside differences and find solutions together, according to Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt.

• School proposes budget cuts

  By Lauren Heaton

  Last week the Yellow Springs school district released the cuts to the 2011–12 budget that the school board will consider at its meeting tonight, Thursday, March 10, at 7 p.m.

• McKinney Chili Cook-off raised money and the roof

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 15, 2011

  

  The 17th annual McKinney Chili Cook-off drew about 150 tasters and 24 chefs who entered their recipes in the contest held at Yellow Springs High School on Saturday, March 12.

• Yellow Springs students hold walkout in protest of Ohio Senate bill

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 12, 2011

  

  Local students left school Friday in a statement of protest against the state senate’s recent approval of Senate Bill 5, which would curb the rights of Ohio’s public employees, including teachers.

• India by way of ‘Jungle Book’

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 10, 2011

  

  As Mills Lawn students rehearse Disney’s Jungle Book for the all-school musical this year, they have begun to investigate not just the animated India, but the real life India as well.