When Gov. Ed Rendell said everyone in Pennsylvania will feel some pain over the state's current fiscal crisis, that included the Pennsylvania Governor's Schools for Excellence programs.
Rendell proposed cutting the $3.2 million Governor's School programs from the next fiscal year's budget as part of his effort to offset a projected $2.3 billion state deficit, according to The Delaware County Daily & Sunday Times.
But alumni of the Governors School are not willing to accept the threatened cuts without a fight.
A story in the Delco Times by Daily Times Staff Writer Patti Mengers, herself an alumna of the 1968 Fine Arts Program, the prototype for the Pennsylvania Governor's Schools for Excellence, says alumni are organizing online to oppose shutting down the program.
The petition to save the Pennsylvania Governor's Schools for Excellence can be signed online at http://www.petitiononline.com/pgse2009/petition.html
The Facebook group advocating for the Governor’s Schools is titled "Save the Govies."
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