Judge D Brock Hornby of the US District Court for the District of Maine ruled Wednesday that public funds cannot be used for tuition payments to sectarian schools in regions where public schools are not provided by the local government.
Communities that do not have a local public or private secondary school to offer students are required to pay tuition for available public or approved private school options in neighboring regions. Parents are, depending on a student’s acceptance at the school, able to choose among these available options.
