At a Albert S. Hall School assembly Monday, Karin Zimba spoke about her winning art project “Serendipity.”

The joint contribution from seven different families will support a new academic program, digital and computational studies.

Karin Zimba is the Maine winner of the Internet search engine’s annual doodle contest; her sister, at the same school, won in 2014.

Projections show 131 districts could lose money next year, with Portland hit the hardest, leading to calls for the state to increase its education spending.

A committee is floating a proposal to move students out of the building with seventh and eighth grades going to the high school and sixth grade going to the elementary school within the next two years.

The daylong event at the Waterville college, ‘Disability: Understanding and Overcoming Obstacles,’ also included discussions of ADA law, brain injuries and learning styles.

Of the 26 layoffs, only one did not follow the contract, the arbitrator says, ordering the university to pay for that person’s lost wages and benefits.