Yellow Springs School Board Section :: Page 20

• Levy, budget on board plate

  By Brooke BryanOctober 22, 2009

  At their Oct. 8 meeting, school board members discussed the updated five-year financial forecast in the light of current economic difficulties.

  District Treasurer Joy Kitzmiller and Interim Superintendent Tony Armocida are recommending that the district seek a levy renewal in May 2010, at the same level as the current levy, which according to Kitzmiller, has remained constant for 10 years.

• Board of education meeting—Why fewer girls in YSHS sports?

  By Brooke BryanSeptember 17, 2009

  At the Sept. 10 Yellow Springs Board of Education meeting, the board heard a presentation on data regarding why local female youth participate less in sports than their male peers. Overall, the report stated that upper-grade girls, most of whom had played sports in lower grades, now found less satisfaction in sports, rated themselves as […]

• New faces in fall election

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 27, 2009

  The Nov. 3 elections for Village Council and school board livened up at the last minute last week, when several new hopefuls entered the races shortly before the deadline.

• Schools see big tax decline

  By Brooke BryanAugust 20, 2009

  At the Aug. 13 Yellow Springs Board of Education meeting, District Treasurer Joy Kitzmiller announced a steep decline in this year’s second quarter income tax revenues.

• Schools to bus fewer students

  By Brooke BryanAugust 13, 2009

  It is unclear at present exactly how many students the Yellow Springs schools’ new transportation policy affects, but it appears that most of the students who reside within the school district are currently ineligible to ride the bus. Yellow Springs school board addressed the changes to the district’s transportation schedule at its most recent Committee […]

• Glismann leaves this week

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 30, 2009

  

  Yellow Springs schools Superintendent Norm Glismann is leaving his job after two years because he did not feel he was a good fit with the community or the school district, he said. “I have professional and personal values that had to be put on the back burner too often,” he said in an interview Tuesday. […]

• Amid funding questions, open enrollment remains

  By Brooke Bryan

  First, consider a national recession with deep effects on state and local revenue streams. Add a host of educational reform standards proposed by the governor in the state’s hotly contested biennium budget. Then, pass an education plan (and supporting budget) that is based on these state and local revenue streams that are not only decreasing, but shifting in other unpredictable ways.

• Schools end year in black

  By Brooke BryanJuly 16, 2009

  At the July 9 school board meeting, Treasurer Joy Kitzmiller reported that the Yellow Springs school district ended the financially challenging 2008–2009 fiscal year in the black.

• Local offices up for election in fall

  By Lauren HeatonJune 25, 2009

  The excitement of last year’s presidential election should only serve to underscore the importance of the local elections that are scheduled at the end of this year. On Nov. 10, 2009, three Village Council seats, Village mayor, three seats for Yellow Springs Board of Education and two seats for Miami Township Board of Trustees will be up for election.

• Board hears concerns on proposed cuts

  By Brooke BryanMay 21, 2009

  The May 14 school board meeting was held at Yellow Springs High School at 4 p.m. before, at its high point, an audience of approximately 40 people. Board President Aida Merhemic opened the meeting with an apology for the timing of the meeting, which was scheduled so as not to conflict with the schools’ spring music festival.