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Article: A Summer Vacation Of Intensive Learning; Supporters Try to Save Centers Program
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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The state's signature summer program for gifted and talented
students has been cut from next year's budget, signaling what could
be the end of a 42-year tradition that proponents say has changed
the lives of many children.
The Maryland Summer Centers Program gives students in grades 4
through 12 the chance to spend one to two weeks learning intensively
about specialty areas, such as physics, jazz, robotic design,
languages, musical theater, aerospace and paleontology.
This summer, 747 students are signed up to attend one the
program's 16 centers across the state. More than half of this
summer's students are from the Washington area. And after this year,
there is no funding.
"We are cut ...