One Last Thing | Gifted students shortchanged
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2006 by Jonathan Last
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In his new budget, Gov. Corzine quietly scuttled a tiny but influential program: He eliminated the New Jersey Governor's School from the state budget, effective immediately.
The Governor's School is a program for gifted high school students. For one month the summer before their senior year, 625 students are selected to one of six schools (for public issues, science, the arts, the environment, international studies or engineering). Competition to get in is stiff because, unlike most academic summer camps, the Governor's School is not just for the privileged. If you are talented enough to get in, the state pays your tuition, room and board. As both reward and inducement for the next generation of leaders, it's hard to imagine New Jersey getting a better bang for its buck. Total annual cost: just $1.92 million.
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This year's Governor's scholars had already been selected when Corzine's dictum ...
