School for Vets' Kids to Lose Funding

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School for Vets' Kids to Lose Funding
February 06, 2009
Philadelphia Daily News

Coming from a city where too many schools are unsafe and battered by age and indifference, they believe their school to be a refuge.

It's a place where 288 third-through-12th graders live in cottages and attend classes on a 183-acre campus on rolling green hills.

This is why the students and their parents -- mostly Philadelphians -- simply love the Scotland School for Veterans' Children, in rural Franklin County, Pa.

Now, they are devastated, vowing to fight for the survival of the 114-year-old boarding school, which Gov. Edward Rendell believes is too expensive to keep open in these tight economic times.

Rendell, during his budget address Wednesday, said that the school was among programs "whose goals may be laudable, but which fall outside the core functions of state government."


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