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First, only virtual school in Mass. will be closed

Greenfield committee votes to end online experiment

The state’s first virtual school will shut its digital doors this summer after the Greenfield School Committee voted last week not to submit a proposal to run the Massachusetts Virtual Academy at Greenfield for another year.

The academy opened in 2010 and serves about 470 students in kindergarten through eighth grade from all across the Commonwealth. It will close on June 30, according to committee members.

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Our breathlessly corrupt Commonwealth, once again, wants to meddle with a going Public concern. The School Committe has worked unflaggingly to serve it's student population. The Comm. Of Mass.will bog it down with it's usual B.S., (Patronage, Deval's unqualified sycophants, etc). One outrage among many in our staggering Public School Drama. Meh.