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DATE: FRIDAY, March 30, 1990                   TAG: 9003300474
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

STATE PLANS TO MERGE DEAF AND BLIND SCHOOLS

Citing shrinking enrollments, the Virginia Board of Education decided Thursday to consolidate the state's two schools for the deaf and blind by 1994.

The school at Staunton will continue to educate deaf and blind students while the Hampton school will serve students with severe multiple handicaps.

Thomas L. Gorsuch, who chaired the committee making the recommendations, said the decline in the number of deaf and blind school-age children in Virginia has made two schools unnecessary.

- Associated Press 


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