Pennsylvania Governor's Schools of Excellence
The Pennsylvania Governor's Schools of Excellence (PGSE) are five-week, publicly funded summer program for gifted high school students.
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell cut funding for the PGSE program in the state's 2009-2010 budget.[1][2] Five of the programs have been privately revived and are functioning members of the National Conference of Governor's Schools as of 2014.
Programs
- The Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Agricultural Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University
- The Pennsylvania Governor's School for Engineering and Technology at Lehigh University
- The Pennsylvania Governor's School for Global Entrepreneurship at Lehigh University - (renamed the Pennsylvania School for Global Entrepreneurship)
- The Pennsylvania Governor's School for Information, Society & Technology at Drexel - closed
- The Pennsylvania Governor's School for Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh - (renamed the University of Pittsburgh Health Career Scholars Academy)
- The Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University
- The Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Mercyhurst University - closed
- The Pennsylvania Governor's School for Global & International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
gollark: In many cases you just need to have *a degree* of some sort, even if it's completely pointless, because it shows... that you have the patience to do a thing for 4 years or something??
gollark: Or, well, are just short of it.
gollark: So you just have costs go up until they don't reach the limit!
gollark: I mean, if you have a government policy saying "you'll get whatever education you want, free*", the government cannot just go "we'll not buy from you if you increase the price too much".
gollark: How does *that* work?
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