Maine has been following the precedent set by several other United States school boards and has been cutting funding significantly to schools, especially for fine arts programs. While this mostly affects public schools, it will also affect a small number of private and magnet schools that receive fundings, grants, and scholarships for students from the government.

Pete Klingon, Headmaster of Executor Private Academy in northern Maine, was available for comment after a session of Maine’s house of represantatives discussing the bill. “It’s really a crime what they’re doing, and that private schools should have to suffer in these harsh economic times,” he stated. “It’s not that our schools will be shut down, but any state funding whatsoever, which includes grants and scholarships for bright young individuals who can’t afford the tuition.”

Yes, it’s true that this will largely hit the gifted youth of Maine. The Maine government had until this point invested a lot of money in the artists of tomorrow, but it has, evidently, decided to be more selective about which artists are worthy of being artists of tomorrow. The state of Maine will be sending inspectors to a handful of private and magnet schools receiving state funding in order to weed out the, quote, “unnecessary expenses”. The bill is expected to be passed into law near the end of the semester.

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