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• School board— Vote clears way for potential land purchases

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanApril 27, 2017

  

  At its April meeting, the Yellow Springs Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution that will allow the Yellow Springs school district to enter into negotiations regarding the purchase of land for future school buildings.

• Yellow Springs School Board— Group to create mediation protocol for PBL

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 24, 2016

  

  The Yellow Springs High School’s Student Relations Board, a group of students and teachers, will be reconfiguring the project-based learning, or PBL, contracts signed by students in each class, with the intent of developing a mediation protocol for how the PBL teams deal with conflict.

• Schools hire an outside promoter

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanOctober 22, 2015

  

  Earlier this school year, the Yellow Springs school district hired Megan Anthony, a communications coordinator with the Clark County Educational Services Center.

• YS teachers to train other districts

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanSeptember 24, 2015

  

  Yellow Springs High School will deliver project-based learning (PBL) training to two northeastern Ohio school districts on Oct. 22 and 23.

• School board— YSHS student liaison proposed

  By Lauren HeatonApril 30, 2015

  

  Yellow Springs High School senior David Butcher proposed at the Yellow Springs School Board meeting last week that a member of the student body be appointed as a school board liaison.

• Families weigh pros, cons of school testing

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 3, 2014

  

  Since national and state education leaders began revising standardized testing requirements that will more than double the hours and days students will spend testing from last year to this year, parents have been asking questions.

• Students can bowl this winter

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 25, 2014

  

  Bowling is back. At its meeting Sept. 11, the Yellow Springs School Board approved a proposal to make bowling the newest official sport at Yellow Springs High School.

• Yellow Springs School Board affirms nonrenewal of contract

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 31, 2014

  

  Three members of the Yellow Springs School Board met last Monday, July 14, at a special board meeting and voted to affirm their previous decision to nonrenew the contract of McKinney Middle School physical education and health teacher Angela Bussey.

• Sports budget at 10-year low

  By Lauren HeatonJune 26, 2014

  

  On any given day during the school year, dozens of students from McKinney and Yellow Springs High School can be seen releasing their energy on the soccer field, sprinting for a lay up on the basketball court, diving for a run on the baseball field, or participating in the many other sports the school has traditionally offered.

• Teacher opposes nonrenewal

  By Lauren HeatonMay 22, 2014

  

  The Yellow Springs School Board approved a recommendation at their meeting Thursday, May 8, to nonrenew the contract of McKinney physical education and health teacher Angela Bussey. During the board meeting, Bussey and her attorney Mark Landers held a public hearing to defend her right to maintain her job.