The district’s four-year superintendent has been a public face for proficiency-based grading in Maine, and he calls his new job a chance to “support students and educators on a national scale.”

Dozens of volunteers helped about 600 fifth and sixth-graders learn on Friday, dubbed China Forest Day, about plant and animal life in the woods.

The spending plan includes cuts to transportation, facilities and special education, and takes more than $38,000 from extracurricular budgets.

Raised from eggs in a science class that ties the fish life cycle to the local ecosystem, fish were released into Messalonskee Stream with help from local experts.

Students from Waterville, Winslow and Messalonskee school districts received high school diplomas or equivalency degrees.