January 31, 2009

PA Governor's Schools of Excellence axed

"Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday that state funding for Drug Abuse Resistance Education grants should be cut to help balance the state's 2009-2010 budget . . . one of 100 he wants to cut to balance the budget, although he said some of the programs that get the ax will likely be funded in the future once the state's dire financial situation improves.

"I take no pleasure in any of these eliminations," Rendell said. . . . Rendell also mentioned he would propose no funding for Governor's Schools of Excellence, which are summer programs for talented students." York Dispatch, January 30, 2009