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• Architect firm chosen for school facilities project

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 26, 2024

  

  Ruetschle Architects, and in particular firm Vice President Mike Ruetschle, worked with the district in 2022 and 2023 as a consultant to create a master facilities plan to put before voters.

• School facilities improvement process begins

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 31, 2023

  

  At its Dec. 14 regular meeting, the Yellow Springs Board of Education took its first step toward realizing the district school facilities improvements that were approved by voters last month.

• Operations levy renewal expected for March

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 22, 2023

  

  At its most recent meeting on Thursday, Nov. 9, the Yellow Springs school board voted unanimously to approve a resolution of necessity that will place a substitute operations levy on the March 19, 2024, ballot.

• Yellow Springs school board discusses high rate of student absences

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 6, 2023

  

  Students are considered chronically absent if they miss 10% of instruction during a school year. That percentage is calculated via the ratio of absent hours — both excused or unexcused — to total possible hours of instruction during a school year.

• HB 187 could lower taxes and school revenues

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 25, 2023

  

  Last week, Ohio legislators passed House Bill 187 — a bill that could ease the tax burden for property owners in the short term, but could also spell delays in tax funding for municipalities and reduced revenues for school districts.

• School board resumes facilities, levy talks

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 26, 2023

  

  As the Nov. 7 election day approaches, the Board of Education last week resumed discussing an upcoming levy to address district school facilities.

• Yellow Springs school board appoints Scott Fife

  By YS News StaffSeptember 14, 2023

  

  On Friday, Sept. 1, the Yellow Springs Board of Education unanimously voted to appoint local resident Scott Fife as a member of the board.

• Yellow Springs Board of Education to pursue phone plan

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 2, 2023

  

  The Board of Education returned to a discussion of phones in schools at its Aug. 10 regular meeting; the board originally discussed the issue at a July 6 meeting after receiving a letter from 16 district parents concerned about how phones affect school environments.

• School Board President TJ Turner resigns

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 24, 2023

  

  Just before the adjournment of the most recent regular meeting of the Board of Education on Thursday, Aug. 10, Board President TJ Turner announced to those present that the meeting would be his last.

• School board broaches phone concerns

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 27, 2023

  

  The discussion was prompted by a letter written to the board by a group of 16 parents of local students; the letter lauded “the merits of phone-free learning environments.”