Susan McMillan

Staff Writer

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Published
February 11, 2012

Construction work under way at ice arena

HALLOWELL — An official groundbreaking for the new Kennebec Ice Arena is planned for next week.
Published
February 9, 2012

Petition cleared to leave RSU 12

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.
Published
February 8, 2012

Security a concern with plan

SOMERVILLE — A reorganization proposal that involves moving the school district’s central office into unused classrooms in Chelsea Elementary School is raising security concerns among some residents and board members.
Published
February 5, 2012

Plan for Somerville school goes to public

SOMERVILLE — All Somerville Elementary students may be sent to Windsor School next year.
Published
February 4, 2012

Expert: Schools can do better

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.
Published
February 4, 2012

RSU 11 board votes not to reconfigure elementary schools

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.
Published
February 4, 2012

Panel discusses ideas to improve education

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.
Published
February 2, 2012

Maine students post higher scores in math, reading

AUGUSTA — Maine elementary and middle school students performed better this year on tests of math and reading, but worse in writing.
Published
January 29, 2012

Plan to reorganize RSU 11 elementary students goes to board

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.
Published
January 27, 2012

RSU 12 board debates tax formula change

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