Governor's School, Grads Ponder What Future Holds ; Financial Woes Plague Program for Bright Teens

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › July 31, 2006

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There's one question that stymies even the most studious at the Governor's School of Public Issues: Will there be a school next year?

That question was very much on the minds of 100 of the state's best and brightest high school students at Saturday's graduation ceremony -- perhaps the final such commencement for the lauded 23- year-old summer education program. Nearly $2 million in last-minute private donations kept the school open after Governor Corzine slashed funding for this and the five other "Governor's School" programs in March. Next summer, though, is still a question mark.

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Governor's School, Grads Ponder What Future Holds ; Financial Woes Plague Program for Bright Teens

"I can't believe a program like this would be shut down," Nicholas Hopkins, 17, told the overflow crowd at Monmouth University's Pollack Auditorium in West Long Branch. The president of his class at Hudson County School of Technology in North Be...

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