WISCASSET — A group of residents who want the town to withdraw from Regional School Unit 12 has gathered enough signatures to send the issue to referendum this year.

SOMERVILLE — All Somerville Elementary students may be sent to Windsor School next year.

GARDINER — Regional School Unit 11 will keep students at Pittston’s and Randolph’s elementary schools organized as they are now, following the school board’s vote Thursday not to split up the schools’ students.

AUGUSTA — Maine’s elementary and secondary schools are some of the best in the country, but that’s not good enough when competing in a global economy.

AUGUSTA — Maine elementary and middle school students performed better this year on tests of math and reading, but worse in writing.

GARDINER — The Regional School Unit 11 board will vote Thursday on a question that has arisen repeatedly in recent years: whether to reorganize the district’s elementary-age students in Pittston and Randolph schools.

WINDSOR — Several officials and residents here think a proposal that would increase their school taxes isn’t fair.