by John Mooney
The Star-Ledger

After two years of dodging serious budget cuts, the Governor's Schools will be scaled back drastically this summer due to a shortfall in needed funds, officials said.

The residential program for gifted teens, which at its peak served 600 students in six different month-long schools, will be reduced this summer to fewer than 400 students in schools lasting between one and three weeks each.

Supporters and officials in the 20-year-old program are still hoping for a late infusion of money -- possibly from the state -- to help them at least accept more students.

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