A bitter debate in Danville about whether to close the town’s high school underscores the uncertainty many Vermont schools face as the state prepares to overhaul its education system.

The Danville school board reluctantly announced this week that they would hold a special town-wide referendum on Dec. 6 on whether to close the school and instead offer families vouchers to the school of their choice. It comes after a local parent submitted a petition requesting the vote.

But within days after that petition was submitted, the town clerk reported that more than a dozen people asked for their signatures to be withdrawn. Michelle Leclerc, the Danville treasurer, told Vermont Public on Thursday that people had written to her office saying they had been “misinformed” and given “false information

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