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• YS Schools district offices to move

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 11, 2022

  

  At the regular meeting of the Board of Education on Thursday, Oct. 13, the board voted to move ahead with a plan to relocate the district offices from their current location across the street from Mills Lawn on Walnut Street to a leased office suite at 888 Dayton St. owned by MVECA.

• School’s ghouls: Mills Lawn School Halloween parade

  By YS News StaffNovember 3, 2022

  

  After a three-year hiatus, the long-loved Mills Lawn School Halloween parade and town-wide trick-or-treating returned Monday, Oct. 31.

• Outside voices

  By Matt Minde

  

  As the days get shorter and feast season approaches, the Mills Lawn School fourth- through sixth-grade choir sang seasonally appropriate songs in a seasonally appropriate drizzle outside the Yellow Springs Hardware store Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 24.

• School play meditates on antiracism

  By Lauren Shows

  

  “Five Scripts Toward an Antiracist Tomorrow,” will be mounted by the young thespians of McKinney Middle and Yellow Springs High schools Thursday–Sunday, Nov. 3–6, at the Foundry Theater. Admission is free.

• YS Schools receive state ratings

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 28, 2022

  

  The district’s highest average proficiencies across all tested subjects were social studies, English language arts and science. The lowest-scoring subject in achievement was math, which averaged 54% across grades three through eight and high school algebra and geometry.

• Facilities Committee discusses maintenance plans

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 26, 2022

  

  The Facilities Committee formed earlier this year to consider the costs of a phased, permanent-improvement plan to upgrade the district’s buildings compared with building all-new facilities.

• School board talks sex education

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 12, 2022

  

  The YS Board of Education discussed health and sex education in the schools during a work session on Thursday, Sept. 19. Discussion focused on the schools’ current curricula in those areas, as well as future steps the schools may take.

• School board discusses facilities renovation drafts

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 23, 2022

  

  The draft plans included a number of deep renovations and some new construction intended to address issues including security, functionality, space and accessibility in the schools.

• YS Schools Facilities Committee | Ruetschle presents draft floor plans

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 21, 2022

  

  Architect Mike Ruetschle presented drafts of potential floor plans for updated facilities at Mills Lawn Elementary, McKinney Middle and YS High schools at a meeting of the district’s Facilities Committee on Thursday, Sept. 1.

• School district digs deeper into safety, security

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 6, 2022

  

  During a presentation on new safety and security policies and equipment adopted by the district, Superintendent Terri Holden asked the board to consider the possibility of installing fencing at Mills Lawn, which would enclose the school’s younger student playground.