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• Antioch and village schools collaborate on Future of Education series

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 17, 2011

  

  The Yellow Springs school board, in inviting a series of progressive-minded educators and thinkers to town, hopes the next few months are filled with discussion and debate about the future of education in the village.

• Music, dance to honor YSHS theater

  By Kelsey CundiffFebruary 10, 2011

  The YSHS theater program has inspired Lauren Westendorf and Donovan Berends, so the duo is holding a musical review featuring songs from Broadway musicals to raise money for the program as their senior project.

• Teachers urge caution—Personnel cuts detrimental?

  By Lauren Heaton

  With a healthy cash carryover, the Yellow Springs district should be “judicious” about decisions to eliminate staff and cut benefits, which could end up hurting the district more than helping, the teachers said.

• Students dig for morbid treasures

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 5, 2011

  

  Fifth grade students glean the inside story from owl pellets.

• Creativity reigns at One Acts

  By Kelsey CundiffFebruary 3, 2011

  It’s time again for the annual Yellow Springs High School One Act plays.

• Yellow Springs school board— Possible budget cuts eyed

  By Lauren Heaton

  This week, the Yellow Springs school administration will begin drafting a recommendation to make significant cuts to the district’s 2011–12 budget, partially based on input from the schools and community that Superintendent Mario Basora has received over the past several months.

• Ohio reduces funds for schools

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 27, 2011

  According to former Governor Strickland’s Evidence-Based funding model, the local school district is scheduled to receive $1,037,354 from the state to educate its 621 in-district students this year.

• Engage in designing the future for Yellow Springs schools

  By Lauren Heaton

  Tonight at Antioch University Midwest, the Yellow Springs school district will launch “The Future of Education” lecture series aimed at stirring the community toward reinventing the village’s public school model.

• YSHS’s O’Brien retiring after 33 years — A passion for lifelong fitness

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 20, 2011

  

  Retiring Yellow Springs High School teacher Kevin O’Brien hopes that he inspired students to commit to lifelong fitness as he worked to create a strong physical education program in the Yellow Springs School District.

• New YSHS newspaper a hit with students

  By YS News StaffJanuary 13, 2011

  

  Along with many other changes that took place this year at YSHS, something new was offered to students: a unique, workshop-type class in which students produce a monthly school newspaper.