For Sharon High School students looking to take upper level and advanced courses that are either not offered or do not fit into their schedules, seven seats each semester next year in Virtual High School will fill the gap. Virtual High School offers online courses taught to students via the Internet by teachers from around the country and the world.

The Mansfield Music and Arts Society put on the musical “1776” at the Unitarian Church. The group went on to perform the play for family, friends, and some state legislators at the State House in Boston in August.

Sixteen-year-old Alex Barth won hosting duties for the television show “Totally Patriots” along with seven other 16-21 year-olds from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. Each winner will host two segments of the show during the regular season, creating lead-ins for segments and interviewing players.

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With a level-funded budget, Baeta knows that there is only so much that can be done in public education because there is only so much money to go around, he said.

Although 15 positions were laid off, Baeta is determined to continue to move the district forward.

“We’re keeping positive, taking on one problem at a time,” he said.

A new program being offered to students in Grades 9 through 12 consists of the online courses offered through Virtual High School.

These courses are ones that aren’t offered at the school and can be used to help schedule other classes offered there.

Courses such as zoology, many different languages, and statistics can all be taken through the online courses, Baeta said.

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LAKEVILLE —Some students at Apponequet Regional High School will be ditching the classroom this fall. That’s because they will now be able to take online courses. Apponequet has joined a cooperative called Virtual High School, and it’s something Supt. of Schools John McCarthy is excited to see in the district.

“Virtual High School accomplishes two things for us. First, it allows our students to learn in a 21st Century environment, whereby learning essentially takes place 24/7 and is not confined to the four walls of a classroom,” he said. “Second, it dramatically increases the number of courses available to Apponequet students, something, as a small school, we would never be able to afford to do.”

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Apponequet Regional High School teacher Bonnie Ferreira recently received an e-mail from a parent.

But this wasn’t a typical e-mail. It wasn’t about a student at Apponequet, or even a student from another Massachusetts school. It was from a parent in China, and it was about the Advanced Placement Biology online course Ferreira will be teaching in the fall.

The e-mailer’s daughter wants to become a doctor, and she needed a recommendation from a teacher in an AP biology course, which was not offered at any local high school.

The will likely get what she needs in Ferreira’s course, part of a Maynard-based program called Virtual High School.

Ferreira is the only Apponequet teacher who will oversee a Virtual High School course. She and other school officials are excited about Apponequet’s involvement in the program.

Through a $6,500 grant, students at Apponequet can take courses that are not offered at the school district or perhaps not even in this area or state.

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