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• Class of 2020 Initiative — Executive Summary

  By YS News StaffOctober 6, 2011

  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — Yellow Springs Exempted School District Class of 2020 Initiative Strategic Plan, 2011-2020 Draft.

• Teachers agree to pay freeze

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 11, 2011

  The Yellow Springs school board unanimously approved a new contract with the Yellow Springs Education Association at its meeting Monday, Aug. 1.

• Survey gives schools B, C grades

  By Lauren HeatonJune 30, 2011

  The Yellow Springs School District district released the results of the survey this week, and overall, the community rated it “within average to above average range,” according to the survey report.

• Schools trying to stem losses

  By Lauren HeatonJune 2, 2011

  According to the Yellow Springs school board, due to the cumulative effect of the budget reductions the district instituted this spring, the five-year budget forecast through 2015 looks slightly better than it did last fall.

• Schools broaden elective choices

  By Lauren HeatonApril 28, 2011

  Teachers and administrators of Yellow Springs High School and McKinney School met last month to compose a new class schedule for next school year, which allows students greater flexibility and leverages teachers’ time to create more core electives.

• Roosevelt speaks on crisis in public education

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 8, 2011

  

  Last Saturday Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt, the former superintendent of Pittsburgh schools, spoke on the American educational crisis at an event cosponsored by the Antioch College Morgan Fellows and the Yellow Springs public schools.

• School’s 2020 plan kicks off

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 16, 2010

  The Yellow Springs School Board’s Class of 2020 strategic planning process kicked off Saturday morning with a community workshop.

• School’s 2020 plan kicks off

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 9, 2010

  The Yellow Springs School Board’s Class of 2020 strategic planning process kicked off Saturday morning with a community workshop at the Glen Helen Building.

• School’s 5-year forecast in red

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 28, 2010

  The current school district budget picture, as presented by district Treasurer Dawn Weller at the school board’s Oct. 14 meeting, shows that expenditures are increasing at a greater rate than revenues, and the local district will begin running a negative cash balance at the beginning of the 2013 school year.

• Basora puts schools to task

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 16, 2010

  Taking the first action step toward turning the Yellow Springs district into a model for 21st century education, Superintendent Mario Basora presented a four-page goal chart and timeline for the current school year to school board members at their meeting on Monday, Sept. 9.