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• Attracting young familes focus of joint meeting

  By Megan BachmanAugust 28, 2010

  

  At last night’s joint between the Yellow Springs School Board and Village Council, the first such meeting in five years, board and council members discussed with the public ways to attract more young families to the village.

• New light, new faces at schools

  By Megan BachmanAugust 26, 2010

  

  All-day kindergarten at Mills Lawn Elementary School and flexible credit opportunities at the high school are two of the many changes Yellow Springs School District students can expect when classes resume on Wednesday, Aug. 25.

• Changes expected for students heading back to school

  By Megan BachmanAugust 25, 2010

  

  Among the changes Yellow Springs students can expect when they head back to school today are new teachers, brighter classrooms and flexible credit opportunities.

• YS schools make good grades, still need work

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 19, 2010

  

  Preliminary results of the Ohio Achievement Tests that students took last spring indicated that Yellow Springs students are likely to score at least as well as or better than last year, according to new district Superintendent.

• Energy upgrades spark learning

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Not only will the Yellow Springs high, middle and elementary schools benefit from an energy-efficient makeover this coming school year, their students will learn how to analyze and reduce the school’s energy use from the classroom.

• Schools get a “green” makeover

  By Megan BachmanAugust 16, 2010

  

  New for the 2010 school year is an energy-efficiency makeover at all three school buildings and an energy curriculum to match.

• Class of 2020 Initiative—Schools eye strategic plan

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 12, 2010

  Change in any organization can be brought about by a shift in leadership, a shift in demand for service, or a shift in budgetary balance, or, as in the case of the Yellow Springs Exempted School District, it can be induced by all three forces at once. This fall the district will tackle the Class of 2020 Initiative to formulate a strategic plan to guide the schools through the next 10 years.

• Board approves GCESC contract

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 15, 2010

  At its July 8 meeting, the Yellow Springs Board of Education approved the renewal of a contract with the Greene County Educational Services Center, or GCESC, for special education services for the coming school year, although most board members expressed a reluctance to do so, given the high price tag.

• Some tax drop, but hope for future

  By Diane Chiddister

  The income tax decline in the Yellow Springs school budget has been news in recent weeks, and Village government has also seen a downturn in income tax in the past two years. However, the Village tax loss is significantly less than that of the school district, and Village Manager Mark Cundiff sees reason to believe that the worst is over.

• School income tax up slightly

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 1, 2010

  The recession kicked Yellow Springs hard in 2008, according to state income tax figures, and the school district is still reeling from a significant drop in income tax revenue from that year, which schools received in 2009.