<p>Have you applied to NJ Gov School? Have you gone to it or someone you know? if so please go here: <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/SaveNJGS/petition.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.petitiononline.com/SaveNJGS/petition.html</a> and sign this petition to save it!!</p>
<p>e_man1157:
609-292-6000</p>
<p>Call. Say you want to talk about governor's school.</p>
<p>They tally how many callers they get and relay the messages to the governor.</p>
<p>Why has the governor destroyed an educational instititution? I would think that was a terrible political and public relations move.</p>
<p>the governor is planning to cut the scholarship program at tcnj and rutgers. In my opinion, that's even worse.</p>
<p>lim t-->infiniti NJ = crap where t is time elapsed measured in years</p>
<p>Thanks for posting link to this petition!
Our son was a NJ Gov School Scholar in 2003.
A wonderful experience that should be available to future students.</p>
<p>Is there any chance that this is going to b able to be reverted?</p>
<p>I attended the Governor's School in the Sciences in 2004 and am now a Rutgers College Honors Program student.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong; Governor's School is GREAT and is a wonderful program. However, when Corzine's budget is tentatively cutting $170 million from higher education, I think it's really pretty selfish for people to lobby for Governor's School to be reinstated. I know that govschool's budget is nowhere near the universities' in the state (it costs about $1 million), but a $100 million cut to Rutgers is devistating.</p>
<p>Governor's School serves a population of students that do not need to be served. They are the best and the brightest of the state; they will do great in life no matter what. Rutgers, TCNJ, and the rest of NJ's state schools serve not only the best in the state of NJ but also the disadvantaged students who are coming from the slums of Newark (this espescially applies to Rutgers, I think.) To put a priority on serving high school juniors rather than our state university which serves the entire state would be, in my opinion, morally wrong.</p>
<p>But-- hey believe me, I'd be cool with Corzine giving back all the funding to higher ed AND govschool and cutting somewhere else that doesn't affect me :).</p>
<p>If you go to the Rutgers or TCNJ forums, you'll hear from people whose main interests are getting those funds back to universities.</p>
<p>But you're in the High School Life forum. Don't expect people who put hours into applications to care more about whether they'll get merit scholarships in college than about Governor's School. We've been involved in this process for six months. We asked teachers for recs, wrote essays, and some of us had auditions. We had deadlines to meet and other things to do, but we got it done. And now after waiting for four full months we're being told all that was for nothing. We made all our summer plans based on this decision, and now everything we've been hoping for is gone as of a week before final decisions were supposed to arrive.</p>
<p>I'm sure that constitutes selfishness, right?</p>
<p>Sure, you've already gone through high school. You had the opportunity to go to Governor's School and now you're at a great college. What if this had happened to you? The week you were supposed to find out about Governor's School you were told that that opportunity was going to be taken away from you. Which would you express more interest in - getting funding back for your program or someone else's? It's not like we don't care about post-secondary cuts, but when they cut something that relates directly to our immediate lives, we're going to pay for attention to the latter first.</p>
<p>In summary, your accusations aren't welcome.</p>
<p>(By the way, Governor's Schools look for ethnic and geographic diversity, which is why they review applications at the county level before the state level)</p>
<p>Haven't you for a while weedboy.</p>
<p>Absolutely agreed, theoneo, speaking as a finalist, of course.</p>
<p>I was absolutely crushed yesterday when I found out...and so was every other applicant in my school. To announce it at this time is just cruel...why couldn't they have spared us the trouble? </p>
<p>The governor's school application has a binding contract where you sign that if you get accepted, then you have to go. Therefore, the majority of us didn't even look into other programs that we could have gone to...but by now, the application deadline for those programs has passed.</p>
<p>Corzine has lost the support of the best and brightest high school students in New Jersey, as well as their parents, teachers, counselors and relations. What a bloody hypocrite: <a href="http://www.corzineforgovernor.com/press/view/?id=161%5B/url%5D">http://www.corzineforgovernor.com/press/view/?id=161</a></p>
<p>"We must invest in the next generation - in you, the people in this room and your peers throughout New Jersey who will make our state and our families productive and prosperous." - Obviously not.</p>
<p>"Go forward from the Governor's School, find your opportunities, and let's build a great future - together - for New Jersey." - Like hell that's gonna happen now. </p>
<p>"Higher education does not simply benefit the individual, it benefits the state," - What ********.</p>
<p>That petition was the only thing that raised my spirits yesterday. I honestly hope it is able to revert the decision...somehow...someway.</p>
<p>I wrote that in my email to Corzine. That before I leave New Jersey for good I want to vote in one gubernatorial race. Just so I can vote Republican.</p>
<p>Hey, if Whitman was still Governor we could've still had Gov School.</p>
<p>Yea I been away for a real long time</p>
<p>Believe me, I feel your pain and if I was in high school now I'd be just as mad. I think that both money for Govschool and for Higher Ed in NJ should be given back b/c they are both very important.</p>
<p>However, I think that if you think about it, a cut of $170 million to our state's higher ed. is worse than a cut to governor's school when Higher Ed is more important than a summer program. I also know that none of you care or want to hear from me anymore, so I'll shut up now. :)</p>
<p>Nobody ever compared the cuts to Gov School and post-secondary education, so your accusation of selfishness is unwarranted. Bye.</p>
<p>Right, funding Governor's school doesn't automatically imply more cuts for higher education.</p>
<p>However, I am hopeful because the NJGSS site states "At this time, we are exploring the possibility of running the 2006 NJGSS program with private donations. We expect to have an update to this message on Monday. "</p>
<p>Dear lord I hope so. In that article in the NJ Star Ledger, there were people who did offer to fund the program, they were that concerned, but the state just brushed them off.</p>
<p>"There are people who say they can do it," said Spokesman Anthony Coley.</p>
<p>I think there's enough money; now, it's just a question whether bureaucracy and current statutes prevent the funding from getting to the schools.</p>
<p>Major props to the people who are willing to give private donations. They are really cool. However, I think we shouldn't blame Corzine ENTIRELY for this situation. Although he did cut the funds for governor's school, it's not like it was the only program for which funds were cut. Besides, I'm sure at least some other people would do the same, in his situation.</p>
<p>Okay, I'm not really sure if any of that made sense (I'm not very gooda t english), but anyways, good luck to everyone who is hoping to spend this summer at governor's school, =)</p>
<p>i just checked the Gov. School in the Sciences webpage <a href="http://www.depts.drew.edu/govschl/%5B/url%5D">http://www.depts.drew.edu/govschl/</a> and it states that they're currently looking into private funding for the gov. school 2006. should i even bother getting my hopes up?</p>
<p>i saw that too, how much does each cost to run(Science one fore example)?</p>