Danville residents are poised to vote in December on whether to shutter its high school grades at the Danville School and instead pay tuition for students to attend other schools, following a petition submitted to the school board Tuesday.

The petition has set the district on a collision course with a potential outcome public school faculty say would be devastating for the region’s most vulnerable students. The school board proposed a Dec. 6 special meeting for the vote, though the meeting won’t be officially set until next month. If the vote is successful, Danville School’s grades 9 through 12 would close by June 30.

The district would then pay tuition for those high school students to attend public or private schools, according to the language of the petition.

The potential closure of

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