Alexandria school doesn't survive first year

It’s historic reopening was greeted with great fanfare last fall, but the Alexandria Academy ran out of money before its first school year ended and is now all but closed. The private school’s board of governors voted in late April to shut it down because it could no longer pay rent, teachers’ salaries or scholarships for its students.

Headmaster T. Robinson Ahlstrom remains on the job with three volunteer teachers, but only five of the school’s 27 students remain, four of whom are scholarship students from low-income families.